Will Wooten

Will Wooten is an American prosecutor who serves as a Deputy District Attorney in Fulton County, Georgia. He has worked as a public defender and prosecutor in multiple jurisdictions and was part of the prosecution team in the Georgia election interference case. In 2026, he became a candidate for the Georgia Court of Appeals, which he lost.

Early life and education Wooten grew up in Columbia, South Carolina. His father was a lawyer and his uncle, Judge Terry L. Wooten, is a senior U.S. district judge in South Carolina. He earned a law degree from Emory University School of Law, where he has since gone on to teach as well.

Career Wooten began his legal career as a public defender in a rural judicial circuit outside Knoxville, Tennessee, representing indigent defendants, before returning to the Atlanta area in 2018. Wooten noted that the committee planned to hold town halls, and the committee wanted "queer people to know there are queer people in our office."

2020 election influence case District Attorney Willis assigned Wooten to the Georgia election racketeering case prosecuting President Donald Trump for alleged election interference six months after he started in the role.

In an interview with Georgia Public Broadcasting, Wooten noted that the state's position was that the time estimate to hear the case would be the same, whether the RICO prosecutions were separated between the 19 defendants of if they were heard together. Wooten was quoted by WSB-TV denying allegations that the prosecution withheld evidence from the defense. He testified in a hearing in South Carolina to explain the grand jury process and to attempt to compel testimony from Representative Mark Meadows in the case. Wooten also was the prosecutor at trial in the case of Misty Hampton, the former Coffee County Elections Director.

Campaign for Court of Appeals Wooten announced his candidacy on March 5, 2026 for the Georgia Court of Appeals, challenging incumbent Judge E. Trenton Brown III as a part of the larger 2026 Georgia Court of Appeals election.

The election is formally nonpartisan, as are all judicial campaigns in Georgia, though candidates are permitted to campaign and raise funds.