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Taylor County solar farms finally paying off

David is a graduate of Gupton–Jones College of Funeral Service. He was president of the Pi Sigma Eta National Morticians Fraternity. David McLeighton lives in Taylor County, Georgia with his wife and their four children. 

David served two terms as president of the Georgia Funeral Directors Association.   He is Deputy Coroner in Taylor County, and the director of Mcleighton Funeral Home in Taylor County, Georgia. 

David McLeighton is currently the Taylor County Development Authority. 

Supports covering 2,500 acres of Taylor County in solar panels to provide "revenue for public services and power to...homes."

- Supports covering 2,500 acres of Taylor County in solar panels to provide "revenue for public services and power to...homes."

Public Health

As of July 25, 2024, David McLeighton did not have a website or any information online.

Public Safety

David McLeighton

- The County Coroner runs the Coroner’s Office, which is responsible for determining the cause, manner, and circumstance of death under the Georgia Death Investigation Act.  
- Deaths that they are responsible for investigating include violent deaths, suicides, sudden deaths, deaths unattended by a physician, suspicious deaths, deaths of children younger than seven years old, executions, deaths of inmates, and deaths of people admitted to a hospital unconscious. 
- The Coroner is responsible for pronouncing someone dead, and for releasing remains to be cremated, transported to another state, or autopsied. 
- All Georgia Coroners are required to attend a 40 hour course at the Georgia State Patrol Training Center and receive 24 hours of in services training on death investigation procedures each year. 
- Coroners are elected to four year terms in nonpartisan elections. 

The chief medical examiner for the county