Fredric D. Bright - Milledgeville, GA

Fred Bright joined The Cansino Law Firm in an “Of Counsel” position in 2018. His practice area focuses in all types of Criminal Defense (both State and Federal Crimes), Personal Injury, and other civil litigation.

Before joining the firm, Fred had a long and accomplished career in the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office. First serving for 13 years as an Assistant District Attorney in all 8 counties (Baldwin, Jones, Wilkinson, Hancock, Putnam, Morgan, Greene and Jasper Counties), until he was overwhelmingly elected by the voters as the District Attorney in 1994. He was re-elected 5 more times, and served as the District Attorney for 21 years, longer than any DA in the over 200 years history of our Circuit.

He is one of the most experienced trial lawyers in the entire State of Georgia. He has tried over 400 jury trials, including 13 Death Penalty Murder trials as lead counsel (the most in Georgia according to the Atlanta Journal/Constitution), over 100 other homicide cases, and every type of crime imaginable. He has handled tens of thousands of cases involving every type of crime in Georgia, including Drug sales and Possession, DUIs, Vehicular Homicides, Traffic Offenses, Child Molestation and Abuse, Assaults, Batteries, Armed Robberies, Sexual Offenses, Thefts, Forgeries, White Collar Crimes, R.I.C.O. cases, Obstruction of Officer Cases, etc.

Fred has won every award given in Georgia to prosecutors, including District Attorney of the Year Award (2013), President of the Georgia District Attorneys' Association (2006-2007), Chairman of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia (2012-2013), and culminating in the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia (2015).

Fred earned his law degree from the University of Georgia and undergraduate degree from Emory. He is married to Cinda S. Bright, who has served as the elected Clerk of Superior Court for Wilkinson County for 38 years. They are the proud parents of Jonathan, a Litigation Patent Attorney with the law firm of Fish and Richardson in Atlanta, and Jacob, a senior at Georgia Military College Prep School.