Scott Holcomb is an attorney, former military prosecutor, and Georgia state representative. He has served in the Georgia House of Representatives since 2011, where he has primarily focused his legislative efforts on issues of justice. Among other initiatives, Scott led the bipartisan effort to address Georgia's sexual assault kit backlog. In the years since, he has authored legislation to improve the tracking and appropriate storage of DNA evidence, especially in sexual assault cases. He has also been an advocate for the wrongfully convicted, introducing resolutions to compensate wrongfully convicted people for their time incarcerated and co-sponsoring and strongly advocating for Georgia's Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration Compensation Act, which was signed into law in 2025.
Scott began his legal career with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, where he served as a prosecutor and an international law attorney. His first trial was a contested murder case, and he also tried other serious felonies, to include rape and sexual assaults.
Scott is a co-founder of Holcomb + Ward, LLP, a boutique law firm based in Atlanta. A veteran, he deployed three times, and today he represents veterans on a pro bono basis.
Scott earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Connecticut, law degree from West Virginia University, master of business administration from the University of Georgia, master of public administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and master of public health from the University of Michigan.