The Speaker of Georgia’s House of Representatives has reappointed Richard Hyde, the state Judicial Qualifications Commission’s former longtime investigator, to continue serving as a commissioner on the newly constituted agency now under the Legislature’s control.

Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, this week named Hyde as his civilian appointee to the JQC in tandem with his rejection of a list of candidates recommended by the State Bar of Georgia to fill his second allotted appointment, who by law must be a member of the Georgia bar.