A lifelong resident of South Georgia, George graduated magna cum laude from Georgia Southern University in 2010 as a 1906 Honors Graduate and a College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Ruffin Scholar. After graduating in 2012 from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, where he was a member of the Trial Board and a member of the Mediation Team, George returned to South Georgia and was a prosecutor for the State of Georgia handling a variety of misdemeanors and felonies in numerous counties before opening his own practice in Brunswick.