- Chief Judge Robert E. Flournoy, III
- Judge Reuben Green
- Judge James G. Bodiford
- Judge Adele Grubbs
- Judge S. Lark Ingram
- Judge C. LaTain Kell, Sr.
- Judge George H. Kreeger
- Judge Dorothy A. Robinson
- Judge J. Stephen Schuster
- Judge Mary E. Staley
Chief Judge Robert E. Flournoy, III
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Matthew Freedman |
| Phone | : | (678)-581-5402 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Christa Flint |
| Phone | : | (678)-581-5400 |
| Court Reporter | : | Pam Bryan Rountree |
| Phone | : | (678)-581-5405 |
| Fax Number | : | (678)-581-5407 |
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Personal History
Judge Flournoy, III was born August 22, 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia. He moved to Marietta in 1957, and attended the Marietta Public School System. He graduated from Marietta High School in 1970.
Professional Education
- University of GA—BBA, 1974. Magna Cum Laude, Beta Gamma Sigma and Phi Kappa Phi
- University of Georgia—J.D., 1979. Cum Laude
- University of Nevada, National Judicial College: Graduated, 2001.
Legal Experience
Judge Flournoy, III engaged in the private practice of law in Cobb County for 20 years in Marietta handling general, civil, and criminal trial and appellate cases in all courts, with a concentration in family law matters. He was appointed by Governor Barnes on July 14, 2000, to fill the Ninth Superior Court Judgeship.
Civic Activities
- Vice Chairman of Board of Trustees—Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art (1998-Present)
- Past Member and Chairman—Downtown Marietta Development Authority (1990-2000)
- Founding Member of Board of Directors—First Alliance Bank (1985-1997) Chairman, Audit Committee
- Judge Flournoy, III is a Member of the Marietta Kiwanis Club, the State Bar of Georgia, Cobb Bar Association, and GA Trial Lawyers Association.
Judge Reuben Green
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Lee Fudger |
| Phone | : | (770) 528-1890 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Sheila Ross |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1888 |
| Court Reporter | : | Cindy Heckler |
| Phone | : | (770) 528-1891 |
| Fax Number | : | (770) 528-8105 |
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Judge Reuben Green was appointed to the Superior Court bench by Governor Sonny Perdue. Immediately prior to his service on the bench, Judge Green was a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Northern District of Georgia, where he prosecuted drug trafficking organizations and violent career criminals. He also served the citizens of Cobb County as an Assistant District Attorney, where he handled the prosecution of over a thousand felony criminal cases.
Judge Green began his law career at King & Spalding, where his practice focused on employment discrimination, product liability, and general civil litigation.
Judge Green received his Juris Doctorate with Honors from Emory University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Before attending college he served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps. While serving as a Marine, he received the Good Conduct and National Defense Medals, was meritoriously promoted twice, and was Honorably Discharged after four years of active duty.
Judge Green is a member of the Cobb County Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia. He has participated with a number of civic and professional organizations, including Rotary International, Boy Scouts of America, the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, and The Marietta Pilgrimage Tour. He has also taught courses in law and criminal justice at Emory University School of Law and Chattahoochee Technical College. He is a member of Northside United Methodist Church.
He and his wife Heidi have two children and are Cobb County Foster Parents.
Judge James G. Bodiford
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Leanne Dolin |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1857 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Jan Porter |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1822 |
| Court Reporter | : | Marilyn Roe |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1856 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-8141 |
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Judge Bodiford was elected in July 1994 as a Superior Court Judge and has since been re-elected three times to this position. He served as the Chief Judge of the Cobb Superior Court during 2005-2006. In his last election, Judge Bodiford received almost 83% of the total vote. The Judge graduated from Mercer University with a B.A. Degree and John Marshall Law School with a J.D. degree. He is also a graduate from the National Judicial College. Prior to this service, Judge Bodiford was appointed as the Chief Magistrate Judge for Cobb County when he was 35 years old. He served in this position from 1985 until 1994. He is well known for conducting Georgia's First Drug Court and completing over 500 felony cases which eliminated a backlog. He was also the trial judge for the two month death penalty trial of ex-lawyer of Fred Tokars and the month long murder trial of Lynn Turner, the alleged anti-freeze murderer. Both cases were televised live, gavel to gavel, on Court TV. In addition to these murder trials, Judge Bodiford presided over and successfully completed the internationally covered Tri-State crematory case involving Ray Brent Marsh. Judge Bodiford also served as the Powder Springs Municipal Court Judge. Before going on the bench, Judge Bodiford served as a trial attorney for the Cobb County District Attorney's Office and was also in private practice in Marietta, Georgia. Judge Bodiford is active in civic and charitable organizations. He is the past president of the Marietta Metro Kiwanis Club and is the prior Chairman of the Board of the Cobb County unit of the American Cancer Society. He is also an alumnus of Leadership Cobb. Judge Bodiford grew up in Cobb County and now lives in the City of Marietta. Judge Bodiford is the Past-President of the Council of Magistrate Court Judges of Georgia. Additionally, he was appointed by a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia to the Supreme Court Committee on Substance Abuse and the Court's Commission and was a charter member of the statewide Alternative Dispute Resolution Commission. Judge Bodiford has been a frequent lecturer across the State of Georgia to lay people, attorneys, and other judges, and serves on the faculty of the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education in Georgia. He has also served as a Faculty Advisor at the National Judicial College located at the University of Nevada. During 2002 and 2003, Judge Bodiford traveled to Estonia and Bosnia on four occasions on behalf of the United States to teach the American Justice System to European judges in those countries.
Judge Adele Grubbs
30 Waddell St.
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1827 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Kimberly Carroll |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1826 |
| Court Reporter | : | Paul Crowder |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1828 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1830 |
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Professional Background
- Admitted to the State Bar of Georgia October 1969
- Admitted to all Georgia and Federal Courts
- Trial Lawyer in Cobb County starting in 1969, with two years as an Assistant District Attorney, until appointed to Juvenile Court Bench in January 1996
- Elected to the Superior Court bench in 2000, and re-election without opposition in 2004 and 2008
Bar Activities
- Master of the Weltner Family Law Inn of Court, Chair of Special Committee on Family Law of the Council of Superior Court Judges, Sustaining member of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia. Past Present of the Cobb Division of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. Speaker at Institute of Continuing Legal Education and Family Law Institute Seminars.
- Cobb County Bar Association—Past President, former member of Board of Trustees for over 20 years. Have served on or chaired various committees including Continuing Legal Education, and Bench and Bar. Member of the Family Law Section and Trial Lawyer's Section. Founder of Cobb Justice Foundation. Received the President's Award on two occasions.
- Elected member of the State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors for 20 years. Member and former chair of the Advisory Committee on Legislation, and member of many bar committees, 2005 Justice Benham Award for Community Service, 2007 Distinguished Bar Leadership Award.
- Member of the National Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention for over 10 years.
Civic Activities
- Chair-elect of Deacons, and choir member and Sunday School Teacher at a First Baptist Church, President of the Rotary Club of Marietta; Former member of the Rotary Club of East Cobb; member of the Board of the American Heart Association, Boy's and Girl's Clubs, member of the Touchdown Club of Marietta High School and Past President and member of the Marietta Schools Foundation. United Way, Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Public Safety Committee.
- 1997 Cobb Woman of Achievement recipient, 2005 Marietta Citizen of the Year.
Judge S. Lark Ingram
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Mary Catherine Begnaud |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1833 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Debbie Brock |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1831 |
| Court Reporter | : | Rhonda Eubanks |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1832 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1834 |
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Judge S. Lark Ingram was appointed as a Superior Court Judge of Cobb County on November 21, 1995. She qualified without opposition for re-election in July 1996 and in 2000 and in 2004. Previously, Judge Ingram was appointed as a State Court Judge of Cobb County in May 1991. She was re-elected to the State Court bench in July 1992 and served until November 21, 1995. Prior to her service as a State Court Judge, from 1980 to 1991, Judge Ingram served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal and Civil Divisions of the United States Department of Justice in the Northern District of Georgia. Judge Ingram graduated from Marietta High School in 1971, Emory University in 1975, and University of Georgia School of Law in 1978. Judge Ingram is a life-long resident of Cobb County and is active in such civic organizations as: Alumni Council, Oxford College of Emory University; Leadership Cobb Alumni Association (Past Member, Selection Committee; Past Chair, Law Enforcement Day; Politics Day); Cobb Chamber of Commerce (Past Member Public Safety Committee; Cobb Executive Women; Focus Cobb); Former Board Member, YMCA of Cobb County; Past Board Member, YWCA; Honoree, YWCA Women of Achievement—1992; Kiwanis Club of Marietta, Inc. (Past Board Member); Past Advisory Board Member, Charter Bank and Trust; Past Board Member, Board of Trustees, The Walker School; Past Board Member, The Walker School Association; Past Chair of Founder's Day Cobb Family Resources; Junior League of Cobb-Marietta (former board member); Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art (former Board Member); American Association of University Women-Cobb Women of the—1992"; Cumberland Jaycees' Candidate for one of the five Outstanding Young Georgians – 1991; Member, First United Methodist Church of Marietta. She is also a member of these professional organizations: State Bar of Georgia; Past member of the Council of State Court Judges; Member of the Council of Superior Court Judges; Former Chair, Board of Visitors, University of Georgia School of Law; Former Alumni Council Member, University of Georgia School of Law; Master of the Inn, Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court; Cobb Bar Association (Past Chair, Speakers Bureau) (Law Day Committee) (Former Trustee); Atlanta Bar Association (past president of the Atlanta Council of Younger Lawyers) (Past Chair, Law Day) (Committee of the Year Award '92-93); Past Member, Board of Trustees of the Trial Judges and Solicitors Retirement Fund.
Judge C. LaTain Kell, Sr.
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Ashley Sawyer |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-8131 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Natalie Bloodworth |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-8130 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-8128 |
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Judge Kell was appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue on December 10, 2007 as the tenth Superior Court Judge of the Cobb Judicial Circuit. He was elected to his first full term on November 4, 2008. He obtained his A.B.J. from the University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 1984. He obtained his law degree from the University of Georgia in 1987. From 1987-1997, Judge Kell served in the Georgia Attorney General's Office, practicing in the area of civil litigation. He was in the Litigation Section at Troutman Sanders law firm in Atlanta from 1997 to 2000. In 2000, he joined the Marietta law firm of Brock, Clay, Calhoun, and Rodgers, P.C. where he became a partner/shareholder until his appointment in 2007. Judge Kell practiced law for over 20 years in courtrooms across the State of Georgia, including both state and federal courts, the Georgia Court of Appeals and Georgia Supreme Court, all three federal district courts, and the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Kell grew up in Cobb County, where his father, Corky Kell, was a football coach and athletic director, and his mother, Carole Kell, was an English teacher and middle school principal. He graduated from Wheeler High School in Marietta in 1980. Judge Kell has been active in many civic and community activities, including participating in the 2001 class of Leadership Cobb, serving as Chairman of the Marietta Area Council of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Advisory of the East Cobb YMCA, and serving for many years in the Hospitality Ministry of his church. He is also a member of the Johnson Ferry Baptist Church.
Judge George H. Kreeger
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | David Conley |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1839 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Babe Atkins Byrne |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1837 |
| Court Reporter | : | (770)-528-1838 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1842 |
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Judge Kreeger received his B.S. and J.D. degrees from the University of Georgia. He was in the private practice of law for 13 years; the last 11 years as a partner in the firm of Tate and Kreeger in Marietta. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for 8 years (1969-76). He was a State Court Judge from January 1979 through June 1984, when he was appointed to the Cobb Superior Court Bench where he still serves. He served as Chief Judge of Cobb Superior Court for two years (1997-1998). He served as Administrative Judge for the Seventh Judicial District (2002-2004) and on the Judicial Council of Georgia (2002-04). Judge Kreeger is the Presiding Judge, Cobb County Superior Court Drug Treatment Court and Chair, Judicial Council of Georgia's Standing Committee on Drug Treatment Courts. He is a member of the Cobb Bar Association and the State Bar of Georgia. His community involvements include the Smyrna Optimist Club of which he is a member and a past president. He served as Lieutenant Governor for the Georgia Optimist. He was the recipient of the Cobb County Legal Secretaries Association and on the Boss of the Year Award and the recipient of the Cherokee Rose Chapter, American Business Women's Association Boss of the Year Award. He is also a member of the first United Methodist Church of Smyrna.
Judge Dorothy A. Robinson
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Jennifer Marcotte |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1845 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Peggy Massey |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1843 |
| Court Reporter | : | Pam Mutuku |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1844 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1881 |
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Professional Education
- St. John's University, New York, New York: B.B.A., June, 1961
- St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri: J.D. February, 1967
- University of Nevada, National Judicial College: Graduate, 1979
Professional Experience
- Judge Robinson has been a trial judge for thirty-six years. She began the practice of law in December of 1967 in Marietta, Georgia. She was the first woman to serve as judge of a court of record in the history of the State of Georgia when appointed in 1972 to the State Court of Cobb County. In 1980, she was the first woman to be elected as a Superior Court Judge in the Cobb Judicial Circuit. In 1985, Judge Robinson was the first woman in the 140 year history of the Superior Court of Georgia to be invited to sit as a Justice Pro Hac Vice in that court.
- Served as Chief Judge of the Cobb Circuit. 1995-1997
- Served on the Executive Committee of the Georgia Council of Superior Court Judges
- Served as the Superior Court Representative on the Judicial Council of Georgia
- Elected in April of 1996 to serve a two year term as 7th District Administrative Judge
- Served for 8 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education in Georgia, serving as Chairman of the Board in 1991
- Effective Judicial Case Management Instructor at seminars for Superior Court Judges state-wide
- Served as State Court Representative on the Judicial Council of Georgia. 1980-1981
- Served as President, State Trial Judges and Solicitors Association of Georgia. 1979-1980 (First Woman to serve as President)
- Served as Chairman, Board of Trustees-Cobb County Symposium, Inc. 1979-1980
- Served as President, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. 1973-1974
- Also a member of: State Bar of Georgia; Cobb County Bar Association; Past Member of the Marietta Rotary Club (Director, Community Service 1991-1992)
- 1985 YWCA Cobb County Woman of Achievement
Personal
Member of St. Joseph's Church in Marietta, where she sings in the choir.
Judge J. Stephen Schuster
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Brittany Jones |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1851 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Janet Smith |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1849 |
| Court Reporter | : | Maribeth Williams |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-70162 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1854 |
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Residence
Marietta, Georgia East Cobb County
Professional Education
- 1973, B.A. – Economics—Tulane University
- 1976, Juris Doctor Degree—University of Georgia School of Law
- 2002, Graduate National Judicial College—General Jurisdiction
Professional Experience
- Judge, Superior Court of Cobb County
- Presiding Judge Juvenile Court of Cobb County
- Attorney at Law and former Assistant District Attorney
Activities and Awards
- American College of Business Court Judges—Charter Member of Executive Committee
- Board of Governors for State Bar of Georgia
- State Bar of Georgia—Young Lawyers Division: "Distinguished Judicial Service Award" for Cobb County Truancy Program
- Cobb County Legal Secretaries Association "Boss of the Year"
- Past President and Past Chaplain of Cobb County Bar Association
- Board of Directors for Cobb County Boy's and Girl's Club, Inc.
- Cobb County Chamber of Commerce
- Member of Honorary Commanders with the U.S. Military
- Marietta Kiwanis
- Marietta Museum of History
- Past President of Cobb County Symposium
- Former Chairman of the Cobb County Board of Ethics for the Cobb County Board of Education
- Master, Charles Weltner Inn of Court
- Frequent speaker in the areas of Family Law, Criminal Law, and Ethics and Professionalism
Judge Mary E. Staley
30 Waddell Street
Marietta, GA 30090
Staff
| Staff Attorney | : | Staci Swit |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1818 |
| Administrative Assistant | : | Charlotte Rooks |
| Phone | : | (770)-528-1816 |
| Fax Number | : | (770)-528-1821 |
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Judge Staley was first elected in 1992 to the Superior Court of Cobb County. Judge Staley graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of West Georgia in 1975. She earned her Juris Doctor from the University Of Georgia School Of Law in 1978. After graduating from law school, Judge Staley served as an assistant District Attorney for Cobb County. She was elected Magistrate Judge of Cobb County in 1982, and then elected State Court Judge, Division 1 in 1984. Judge Staley served as a State Court Judge, Division 1 until she was elected Superior Court Judge in 1992. Judge Staley is actively involved in many civic and professional organizations. She was selected to be a member of the 1996 Class of Leadership Georgia. She is co-author of Georgia Jurisprudence Family Law. She was the 2001 recipient of the Joseph T. Tuggle Professionalism Award, Family Law Section, State Bar of Georgia. She was recognized by the Cobb County YWCA as its 1994 Woman of Achievement. She serves on the Editorial Board of the State Bar Journal and the Board of Trustees for the State of Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
