Superior Court Judge Brenda S. Weaver, Appalachian Judicial Circuit, Jasper, will become Secretary-Treasurer of the Council of Superior Court Judges on May 1, 2013. Her term of office and those of Council President Judge Louisa Abbot, Eastern Judicial Circuit, Savannah, and President-Elect Judge Mary Staley, Cobb Judicial Circuit, Marietta, run from May 1, 2013 to  Read more »

  Local Accountability Courts lead the way in national criminal justice reform     Drug Courts are at the forefront of criminal justice reform efforts being pursued by governors seeking a solution to overburdened budgets, overcrowded prisons, and families torn apart by drug addiction and crime. Governors from Georgia, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia have  Read more »

  ” . . .To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan. . .”      President Abraham Lincoln            In 1865, President Lincoln stood on the East Portico of the Capitol to take the executive oath for his second term as President  Read more »