Gov. Nathan Deal on Friday announced that he’s chosen Rachel Krause, a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, and Emily Richardson, deputy DeKalb County district attorney, to fill open seats on the Fulton County Superior Court.

Deal chose Krause and Richardson from a six-candidate short list the Judicial Nominations Commission sent him on Dec. 19. The other candidates, selected from 18 interviewed by the JNC, were: Elizabeth A. “Beth” Beskin of Chalmers Burch & Adams; Audra A. Dial, the Atlanta managing partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton; Shalanda M.J. Miller, a senior assistant city attorney in the city of Atlanta Department of Law; and Richard S. Moultrie Jr., an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.