Mr. John Knox Larkins III

US District Court

John K. (“Jake”) Larkins III was appointed a United States magistrate judge on January 19, 2016.  Judge Larkins was born in Athens, Georgia, and attended high school in Atlanta.  He graduated from Wake Forest University in 2000 and received his law degree from the University of Georgia in 2003.  From 2003 to 2005 he clerked for United States District Judge Harold L. Murphy.  Following his clerkship, he practiced civil litigation at Rogers & Hardin LLP and at Chilivis Cochran Larkins & Bever LLP.  Judge Larkins maintains the annual updates to Georgia Contracts: Law and Litigation, the leading treatise on Georgia contract law.