Gov. Nathan Deal on Friday named four new Georgia judges to the bench, appointing replacements for retiring superior court judges in the Atlanta, Flint and Piedmont judicial circuits, and a new Dougherty County State Court judge to fill a vacancy left when he named a judge there to the superior court bench.

Deal tapped family law specialist Rebecca Crumrine Rieder, currently a partner with Hedgepeth, Heredia & Rieder, to replace retiring Fulton County Superior Court Judge Doris “Dee” Downs.