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Greg received his associate's degree from Middle Georgia College, his bachelor's degree from Georgia Southern College, and attended Gupton-Jones College of Mortuary Science.

Greg has been an emergency medical technician and EMS until 2013. He was deputy coroner for 35 years.

James Gregory Higgs is the coroner in Treutlen County. He was elected in 2016, and is serving his second term.

As of July 25, 2024, James Gregory Higgs did not have a website or any information online.

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James Gregory Higgs

Greg has been an emergency medical technician and worked EMS until 2013. He was deputy coroner for 35 years.

James Gregory Higgs has been coroner for 8 years.

As of July 25, 2024, James Gregory Higgs’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- 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. 