New deputy coroner Gene Proctor sworn in

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Gene has a Associate of Science degree in fire science/fire fighting from Georgia Northwestern Technical College and a Bachelor of Arts degree in homeland security and emergency management from Ashford University. He is married.

Before becoming coroner, Gene served as deputy coroner for 10 years and spent 40 years with the Rome-Floyd County Fire Department, retiring as a Battalion Chief. 

Gene Proctor is serving his second term as county coroner after first being sworn in 2017. 

As of March 19, 2024, Gene Proctor did not have a website or any information online.

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Gene Proctor

Gene has a Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security and Emergency Management from Ashford University and an Associate of Science in Fire Science/Fire Fighting from Georgia Northwestern Technical College. He is married to Treva Proctor. 

Before becoming Coroner, Gene served as deputy coroner for 10 years and spent 40 years with the Rome-Floyd County Fire Department, retiring as a Battalion Chief. 

Gene Proctor is serving his second term as County Coroner, first sworn in in 2017. 

As of March 19, 2024, Gene Proctor did not have a website and did not complete our questionnaire.

- 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. 

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