Democratic Elections Board member Caycie Dix confirmed her resignation this week after five months on the Board of Elections in order to clear the way for her bid for Probate Court judge.

Dix, 31, did not give a statement but confirmed that she would be running as a challenger for Probate Court judge and would make her official announcement in the coming week. Incumbent Judge Lillis Brown announced in March she would be running for her sixth term. 

Rockdale Democratic Party Chair Tisa Washington said that the party was actively looking at possible replacements to the elections board and has 30 days to name their appointment. 

Dix was appointed to the elections board in November 2011 after Superior Court Judge Sidney Nation ousted sitting Democratic and Republican members Garvin Haynes and Lynn Brown for being unable to agree on a third, at-large member. Dix and Jonny Brown, the husband of Lynn Brown, were appointed to replace the outgoing members and eventually picked former Judge William Todd Long as the third, at-large member. 

The newly assembled elections board recently went through their first election, the March 6 presidential preference primary and Sunday alcohol sales referendum. 

Dix, an attorney, previously ran for the Post II Commission seat in 2010 and lost in the Democratic primary against candidate Courtney Dillard, who lost in the general election against Republican and incumbent Post II Commissioner JaNice Van Ness. 

The Probate Judge seat, as well as Magistrate Court Chief Judge seat, are the only partisan judgeship elections in Rockdale County. Superior court and State court judge races are non-partisan. Legislation to make the Magistrate seat non-partisan stalled in state Senate committee after Sen. Ronald Ramsey declined to sign the bill, and the bill to make the Probate seat non-partisan did not cross over to the other Chamber by the end of the legislative session.

She is one of the founding members of the NewRock Legal Society and had previously worked with the U.S. Census Bureau as a Partnership Specialist for DeKalb County.

Dix was born in Atlanta but grew up in Rockdale, attending Mercer University and Thomas Cooley Law School in Michigan. She was also involved in leading Girl Scout Troop 10574 and is a trustee at her church New Hope Baptist.