George W. Weaver was born in Jasper, Georgia on October 31, 1941. He graduated from Pickens County High School in 1959 with perfect attendance across all twelve years — a work ethic his mother Ruby insisted on, and one he carried for the rest of his life.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1961. He completed Paratrooper training, Counter-Insurgency School, and Special Forces Medical School, and served as a Green Beret in Vietnam before being honorably discharged in 1965.
He came home, joined the Atlanta Police Department, and worked his way up — Lottery Squad Detective, Training Division Detective, Sergeant, and instructor at the Atlanta Police Academy. While wearing the badge, he also earned a Bachelor of Arts in History and Education from Shorter College.
After the APD, he taught Social Studies at Pickens High School and coached football and tennis. Law school came next — at night, while working full time. He graduated from Woodrow Wilson College of Law in 1979.
He served as Investigator and then Assistant District Attorney in the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit from 1979 to 1982. On July 5, 1983, he was sworn in as the first District Attorney of the newly created Appalachian Judicial Circuit — Pickens, Gilmer, and Fannin — a position he held through the end of 1984.
He returned to Jasper and opened the private practice that still bears his name — first alongside his wife Brenda, and later alongside his son. For more than forty years, he handled criminal, family, and civil cases across North Georgia at the standard this firm continues to hold.
George W. Weaver passed away at home on June 27, 2024, surrounded by loved ones, after a battle with leukemia. The day after he passed, he lay in state in the Pickens County Courthouse — to honor his last wish to be in the courtroom one final time. He was 82. He is survived by his wife Brenda, five children, and five grandchildren.
If you walked into your courtroom and saw George Weaver in the audience, you knew it was not going to be a good day.
— A North Georgia prosecutor, on the late George W. Weaver
