Cherokee County Coroner, Coroner's Office

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.

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.

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Sally Sims

Sally earned a bachelor’s in nursing from Emory University in 1993. She continued her education and earned a master’s 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. In 2017, Sally began her work at Cherokee County and has climbed the ladder from intern to coroner.

Sally is running for re-election for Cherokee County Coroner. She was first elected to County Coroner in 2020.

From the candidate’s website, “Her [Sally] expertise ranges from emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, to medical legal death investigations (MLDI).”

- From the candidate’s website, “Her [Sally] expertise ranges from emergency department/trauma nursing, supervision, management, education, to medical legal death investigations (MLDI).”

From the candidate’s website, “She [Sally] represents the Cherokee County Coroner’s Office at the monthly meetings of the Cherokee County Child Fatality Review Team, the Cherokee County Elder Abuse Task Force, the Cherokee County Suicide Prevention Coalition…”

From the candidate’s website, “Sims 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.”

- From the candidate’s website, “She [Sally] represents the Cherokee County Coroner’s Office at the monthly meetings of the Cherokee County Child Fatality Review Team, the Cherokee County Elder Abuse Task Force, the Cherokee County Suicide Prevention Coalition…”
- From the candidate’s website, “Sims 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.”

- 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