Nichole Carswell

Biography

B. Nichole Carswell currently serves as Superior Court Judge for the Mountain Judicial Circuit and the Presiding Judge of the Stephens County Felony Drug Court and the Mountain Judicial Circuit Mental Health Court. Prior to her appointment as Superior Court Judge on March 27, 2025, Judge Carswell served as the Juvenile Court Judge for the Mountain Judicial Circuit and the presiding Judge for the Mountain Judicial Circuit Family Dependency Treatment Court. Prior to being appointed as the first full time Juvenile Court Judge of the Circuit in 2017, she was a partner at McClure, Ramsay, Dickerson & Escoe, LLP in Toccoa, where her practice encompassed family law, adoptions, elder law, real estate law, probate, juvenile law, collections, corporate law, appellate law and general litigation.

Judge Carswell has served as a part-time Adjunct Professor at Truett McConnell University since March of 2019. Judge Carswell is a member of the Georgia Bar Association and the Mountain Judicial Circuit Bar Association.

Judge Carswell received her bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University and her Juris Doctorate from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. Judge Carswell resides in Habersham County with her husband, Chris, and two children, Hadden and Millie.