Sally earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Emory University, and a master’s degree in forensic nursing from Fitchburg State University. Sally has been married for 27 years and her family resides in the Free Home Community.

Sally is a Certified Medicolegal Death Investigator and a Registered Diplomat with the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI). Before she assumed her current position, Sally worked with the Forsyth County Coroner’s Office for two years.

Cherokee County Coroner, Coroner's Office

Sally is the current Cherokee County Coroner. She was first elected in 2020.

Has experience in emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, and medical legal death investigations (MLDI).

- Has experience in emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, and medical legal death investigations (MLDI).

Public Health

Works with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Department in a joint presentation, “Ghost Outs,” to Cherokee County High School students each year on the dangers of texting, drinking, and driving.

- Works with the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office and Fire Department in a joint presentation, “Ghost Outs,” to Cherokee County High School students each year on the dangers of texting, drinking, and driving.

Public Safety

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Sally Sims

- 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. 

Cherokee Coroner, Republican Primary

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