‘Extremely talented’ veteran lawyer leaving post as Bibb County’s No. 2 prosecutor
Prosecutor Nancy Scott Malcor, who for 25 years has tried some of Macon’s highest-profile cases, will leave her Bibb County post as chief assistant district attorney by year’s end.
Malcor has held the Macon Judicial Circuit’s No. 2 position since 2011, serving under two district attorneys.
“I’ve loved every minute of my time here,” she said Wednesday.
Hierarchical reshuffling in DA’s offices is not uncommon amid leadership changes, and Malcor’s pending departure comes in the wake of District Attorney David Cooke’s defeat in June’s election by Anita Reynolds Howard.
Malcor, 50, said that while she will be retiring at some point in the coming weeks or months from her state-funded post in Bibb County, she hopes to find another job as a prosecutor.
Malcor, who began her career here in 1995, has had a hand in sending some of the Macon’s most notorious killers, robbers, rapists and child molesters to prison.
Though he never went to trial, Stephen McDaniel, who pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering Lauren Giddings, his fellow Mercer University law school graduate in 2011, was sentenced to life behind bars on Malcor’s watch.
“The talent that she brought to that office will be sorely missed,” said Bibb Superior Court Judge Howard Z. Simms, who worked with Malcor when he was district attorney.
“She’s one of the best trial lawyers that I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with,” the judge said. “She is extremely talented and she always shows up ready.”
Cooke, who was elected DA in 2012, described Malcor as having “few peers.”
“She’s widely known as one of the greatest prosecutors in Georgia,” he said.
Cooke added that while it is rare for a new DA to keep the previous regime’s second in command, “I knew that a diamond had fallen into my hand and I’d be damned if I was gonna give it up. ... I knew Nancy’s highest loyalty was to the office and to the administration of justice.”
This story was originally published August 13, 2020 at 7:00 AM.