Ms. Andrea Renee Mitchell

State Board of Workers' Compensation

The Honorable Andrea R. Mitchell is a 1987 graduate of Spelman College and a 2001 graduate of Georgia State University’s College of Law.

After spending 18 years as an Army brat, Judge Mitchell moved to Atlanta in 1984 to attend Spelman College, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics.  After several years in the private sector, she returned to school and began pursuing a graduate degree at Georgia State University.  While pursuing that degree, she worked as a legal secretary for a well-respected workers’ compensation claimant’s attorney in Atlanta, which was the catalyst for attending law school. 

After graduating from GSU in 2001, she spent 10 years as a defense attorney, representing Employers, Insurers, Self-Insureds and Servicing Agents in workers’ compensation cases across Georgia.  She was appointed to the State Board of Workers’ Compensation as an Administrative Law Judge in July of 2011, and after spending 2 ½ years in Savannah, Georgia, she returned home and currently works in the Atlanta office where she hears cases stemming from injuries occurring in the metro Atlanta area