Hannah PalmquistHannah Palmquist leads the Office of the Attorney General’s Human Trafficking
Prosecution Unit.
Hannah earned her law degree from Emory School of Law in 2012. After Law School,
Hannah served as an Assistant District Attorney for DeKalb County. She then served as
an Assistant District Attorney for Cobb County in the Trial Division before moving to the
Special Victims Unit where she prosecuted sexual offenses and crimes against children.
She obtained convictions on cases including child molestation, rape, child pornography,
domestic violence and human trafficking. During that time, Hannah was named to the
Daily Report’s 2016 “On the Rise,” edition, a publication of 40 attorneys under the age
of 40 state-wide who are determined to be “Rising Stars.” In 2017, she successfully
argued the constitutionality of the Georgia statute which criminalizes child pornography
to the Georgia Supreme Court. In September of 2018, she became the supervisor of the
Cobb County Juvenile Unit where she worked with juvenile runaways and victims of
human trafficking.
On July 1, 2019, Hannah was named the Unit Chief over the Attorney General’s Human
Trafficking Unit where she oversees a team dedicated to the prosecution of domestic
minor sex trafficking. In that role, she was twice named to James Magazine’s list of
Georgia’s Most Influential Attorneys. In her current role, she leads the investigation and
prosecution of human trafficking cases across the state of Georgia, provides training to
local, national, and international audiences, and leads a national work group for the Tim
Tebow Foundation focused on reducing buyer demand for sex trafficking.
The biography I would have written is much more fun.
