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J. Antonio DelCampo: [21] [22] First Hispanic American male to serve as a Judge of the State Court of DeKalb County in Georgia (2002) Mike Jacobs: [61] First openly LGBT judge in DeKalb County, Georgia (2018) [62] Dr. Franklin Goldwire: [63] First African American male to serve as a magistrate judge of the Effingham County Magistrate Court ...
From 1989 to 2001, Johnson served as an associate judge of the DeKalb County magistrate's court. [8] He was elected to the DeKalb County Commission in 2000 and served from 2001 to 2006. [ 8 ]
The United States District Court for the District of Georgia was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. [1] The District was subdivided into Northern and Southern Districts on August 11, 1848, by 9 Stat. 280 .
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
Sherry Boston serves as the district attorney for DeKalb County, Georgia, which includes a portion of Atlanta, as well as several smaller metro-area cities. [1] Boston was first elected to the position in 2016 after defeating incumbent DA Robert James, a fellow Democrat, in the primary. Boston ran on an anti-corruption platform. [2]
Judge Linda W. Hunter is a DeKalb County, Georgia Superior Court Judge in Division 8. [1] She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the University of Georgia School of Law. She was appointed to the DeKalb State Court by Governor Joe Frank Harris in 1987. [2] Governor Zell Miller appointed her to DeKalb Superior Court in 1991.
He was a member of the Georgia State Senate representing the 43rd District, serving from 2007 to July 2015. Ramsey resigned his Senate seat following his appointment by Georgia Governor Nathan Deal to become a judge serving the Traffic Division of DeKalb State Court in DeKalb County.
From 2002 to 2005, she was an assistant United States attorney in the Northern District of Georgia. From 2007 to 2011, she served as executive assistant district attorney in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. From 2011 to 2014, she served as a judge on the DeKalb County state court. [1] [2]