Stephen Allison State Representative

Public Service

Elected in 2008, Stephen was very active in his first legislative year, having been the sponsor of four pieces of legislation that were signed into law by Governor Perdue, including HB 667, a bill he brought on behalf of the Attorney General. He currently serves on the Judiciary, Banks and Banking, Higher Education and Children and Youth committees in the House.

For the 2010 Legislative session, Stephen has been appointed to serve as a Deputy Whip for the Republican caucus and he now serves as Secretary of the Judiciary Committee.

Education and Career

Stephen was raised in Gwinnett County and attended high school at a Christian academy in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Stephen was successful in and out of the classroom, becoming an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America. In athletics, he was named a 2nd Team Basketball All-American by the National Association of Christian Athletes.

Stephen matriculated to the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in 1989 and gained a Bachelors degree in History in 1993. While at VMI, he was a cadet officer and he was named captain of the school’s volleyball team. While at VMI, he was active in the College Republicans and worked on the 1992 Presidential campaign of George Herbert Walker Bush in the Shenandoah Valley.

After VMI, Stephen enrolled at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, and after graduation he passed the Georgia Bar Exam on his first attempt. In 1997, he and his wife moved to Union County and he was officially sworn into the practice of law in Blairsville by the Honorable Hugh Stone on June 13, 1997.

Stephen has practiced law in Union County for over 12 years, representing hundreds of individual clients and several corporations in the area. During his time in Blairsville, he has served as President of the Enotah Bar Association.

In 1999, he was appointed by the Honorable Hugh Stone to serve on the Tripartite Committee for Indigent Defense as the attorney representative for the entire circuit. This committee oversaw the submission of the criminal defense budget for the entire judicial circuit.

Family Life

In 1996, Stephen married his college sweetheart, Regina Dumouchelle. They met in 1991 while Stephen was a cadet at VMI and while Regina was a freshman at Radford University in Virginia.  The couple dated almost five years before they married in Lawrenceville, Georgia.

Regina balances a life as a executive assistant to the president of a local bank whule being the wife of a public servant and her most important job as a mother of two boys.

The couple have two children, Thomas Jackson Allison, and Nathanael Greene Allison.  Thomas is in third grade and attends Union County Elementary School while Nathanael is in 2nd grade and attends the Union County Primary School.

Stephen is a volunteers history/government teacher to home school children at the Grace-Co Op in Blairsville.   The family attends church at the House of Prayer Interdenominational Church in Blairsville.