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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 ...
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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 ...
Linda W. Hunter (1981): [66] First African American female judge of the DeKalb Superior Court and Chief Judge and Administrative Judge of the DeKalb Superior Court [DeKalb County, Georgia] Carol W. Hunstein: [67] First female elected as a Judge of the Superior Court bench in DeKalb County, Georgia (1984)
Chatham County Magistrate Court is one of five courts in the state that elects its magistrate judges. There are two full-time judges, Michael H. Barker and Moss, and two part-time judges, Bonzo ...
The area of DeKalb county was acquired by the state of Georgia as a result of the 1821 Treaty of Indian Springs with a faction of the Muscogee (Creek). DeKalb County, formed in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties, took its name from Baron Johann de Kalb (1721–1780), a Bavarian-born former officer in the French Army, who fought for the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary ...
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 ]
Before becoming DA, Boston served as DeKalb County's Solicitor-General, a position Gov. Sonny Perdue, a Republican, appointed her to fill in January 2011. [5] Boston started her career as a defense attorney. She was the first woman ever appointed to serve as municipal court judge for the City of Dunwoody. [3]