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Avery Niles named interim commissioner of juvenile justice department
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Avery Niles
Avery Niles, warden of the Hall County Correctional Institution, has been named interim commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. Niles will replace Commissioner L. Gale Buckner, who announced her retirement at a special meeting Wednesday of the Georgia Board of Juvenile Justice in Decatur. She is leaving Nov. 1 to become chief magistrate judge in Murray County.