Veteran attorney Sheneka Terry has joined the Georgia Gang Prosecution Unit as an assistant attorney general in Columbus Attorney General Chris Carr announced.
Terry, the senior defense counsel for the Army National Guard Trial Defense Services Program, will work with Criminal Investigator Amanda McKelvey to oversee the Unit’s regional efforts. She most recently worked as a Senior Assistant Public Defender in the Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit and has nearly 15 years of combined experience in military and civilian criminal law.
McKelvey previously served as a military police officer in the U.S. Army and was most recently a sergeant of the Columbus Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit. She is a seasoned gang investigator with more than 17 years of law enforcement experience.
Terry’s hire took effect on Oct. 16, 2024, and McKelvey’s hire took effect on July 1, 2024.
The hires are part of a recent expansion of the Attorney General’s Gang Prosecution Unit, funded by the state’s fiscal 2025 budget that lawmakers passed and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed in May.
Before July 2024, Carr’s Gang Prosecution Unit had regional satellite prosecutors and investigators in Albany and Augusta. In addition to Columbus, the Unit has expanded to Macon and Southeast Georgia.
