Ms. Hannah Mary Palmquist

Georgia Office of the Attorney General

Hannah 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. She was named to James Magazine’s list of Georgia’s Most Influential Attorneys in 2020 and again in 2021. In her current role, she leads the investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases across the state of Georgia.