Hon. Meng H. Lim is the Chief Judge for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit Superior Court in Georgia. He was elected to the bench in 2014, becoming the first Cambodian-American to serve as a superior court judge in Georgia.
The Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit is comprised of Haralson and Polk Counties.
During his judicial tenure, Lim faced misconduct charges by the Judicial Qualifications Commission of Georgia. The formal charges of willful misconduct and conduct detrimental to the administration of justice were filed by the Commission in July 2021. The ethics charges included an alleged 16 violations of the state Code of Judicial Conduct. Lim announced his bid for re-election to the Superior Court in 2022, pending the outcome of the investigation.
Prior to his election, Lim had worked as the Haralson County attorney for ten years and spent time as a sole practitioner in his own private practice and the city attorney for the City of Buchanan (2000 to 2005).
He received a B.A. in history from Emory University. Lim went on to complete a J.D. at Mercer University, Walter F. George School of Law in 1998.
After graduating from law school, he spent one year as a law clerk for the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit Superior Court.
Lim, a Cambodian refugee, fled his birth country along with his parents and two siblings in the late 1970s after the Khmer Rouge, led by Marxist dictator, Pol Pot, had seized control of the country. After immigrating to the United States in 1981, the family settled in Bremen, Georgia, when he was around the age of nine.
Unable to speak English when he arrived in the United States, Lim went on to graduate valedictorian from Bremen High School in 1991. He has two children.