Court of Appeals of Georgia Centennial Dinner Program

Master of Ceremonies - Marion T. Pope, Jr., Senior Judge, Court of Appeals	of Georgia &

Chairman, Board of Justice Served, Inc.

National Anthem - Mr. Jason Hardy

Welcome - John H. Ruffin, Jr., Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Recognitions and Special Guests - Marion T. Pope, Jr., Senior Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Dinner

Student Presentation & Scholarships - Lendon Gibbs, Justice Served, Inc., Jill
Pryor, Centennial Committee, and Judge
Anne Elizabeth Barnes, Court of Appeals

Introduction of Speaker - Judge Hugh Lawson, United States District Court, Middle	District of Georgia

Speaker- Judge William R. Wilson, Jr., United States District Court, Eastern
District of Arkansas

America the Beautiful - Led by Mr. Jason Hardy

Closing Remarks - John H. Ruffin, Jr., Chief Judge,Court of Appeals of
Georgia

Private Access to All Georgia Aquarium Exhibits

Chief Judge's Message

Drafted by Chief Judge?

Court of Appeals Centennial Committee

Chief Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr., Chairperson

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Judge M. Yvette Miller

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Judge John J. Ellington

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Retired Judge Marion T. Pope, Jr.

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Justice Harold D. Melton

Supreme Court of Georgia

Mr. Charles R. Adams, III

Adams & Adams

Mr. Edwin Bell

Administrative Office of the Courts

Ms. Kimberly M. Esmond

Assistant District Attorney Fulton County

Mr. Robert D. Feagin

Decker, Hallman, Barber & Briggs

Mr. Lendon Gibbs

Georgia Power Company

Professor Marjorie Girth

Georgia State University School of Law

Mr. W. Scott Henwood

Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, P. C.

Ms. Jane Martin

Administrative Office of the Courts

Mr. William L. Martin, III, Clerk and Court

Administrator,Court of Appeals of Georgia

Mr. Bob McAteer, Technical Services

Court of Appeals

Mr. Jeff L. Milsteen

Chief Deputy Attorney General

Ms. Vjollca Prroni

Court Liaison, Powell Goldstein

Ms. Jill Pryor

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, L.L.P.

Professor Helen S. Ridley

Kennesaw State University

Ms. Holly Sparrow

Deputy Administrator, Court of Appeals

Ms. Laura W. Speed-Dalton

Chambers, Aholt & Rickard, L.L.P.

Ms. Rebecca Sullivan

Executive Counsel, Governor's Office

Ms. Gwendolyn Fortson Waring

Attorney at Law

Dean Rebecca H. White

University of Georgia School of Law

Representative Wendell K. Willard

Georgia House of Representatives

Ms. Dianne Medlock Joy

Court of Appeals

The Current Members of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Chief Judge John H. Ruffin, Jr. is the first African American Chief Judge of the Court. He has served on the Court since his appointment in 1994. He also was the first African American Superior Court Judge in the Augusta Judicial Circuit.

Presiding Judge Gary Blaylock Andrews was elected to the office of Judge of the Court of Appeals in November 1990. He has served as a Superior Court Judge and an Assistant Attorney General. He served as Chief Judge of the Court 1997-1998.

Presiding Judge Edward H. Johnson took office by appointment in 1992 and as well as serving as a judge of the Court of Appeals and on the superior court and state court bench in Fulton County, he served as a State Senator from 1977 to 1980. He served as Chief Judge of the Court 1999-2000.

Presiding Judge G. Alan Blackburn was elected to serve the Court of Appeals in 1992. Prior to his service with the Court he had a private law practice, and he served as a Administrative Law Judge for the Georgia Department of Medical Assistance. He was Chief Judge of the Court from 2001-2002.

Presiding Judge J. D. Smith was appointed to serve the Court in 1993 and served as its Chief Judge from 2003-2004. He was formerly the Chief Judge of the Superior Courts of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit.

Judge Anne Elizabeth Barnes won election to the Court of Appeals in 1998 and on January 1, 1999 as the first woman elected in a statewide judicial race without having been first appointed to the bench.

Judge M. Yvette Miller is the first African American woman to serve on the Court. Prior to her appointment in 1999, she served as the Director/Judge of the Appellate Division on the State Board of Workers' Compensation and as a Judge of the State Court of Fulton County.

Judge John J. Ellington was appointment in 1999 to serve the Court. He was one of the youngest trial court judges when he was appointed to serve the Treutlen County State Court in 1991. Prior to that appointment, as well as engaging in the private practice of law, he served as Municipal Court Judge of several cities.

Judge Herbert E. Phipps was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1999. He had previously served the superior, state, juvenile and magistrate benches of Dougherty County. After law school he initially joined the law firm of C.B. King. This firm accepted a number of civil rights cases and Judge Phipps continued to be involved in this area of practice when he left to establish his own law practice.

Judge Charles B. Mikell, Jr. was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2000 after serving a Judge of the Superior Court and State Court of the Eastern Judicial Circuit.

Judge A. Harris Adams was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2002. He previously served as an Assistant District Attorney and Judge of the State Court of Cobb County.

Judge Debra Bernes was elected to the Court of Appeals in 2004 beginning her term of office January 1, 2005. Before her appointment, she served as an Assistant District Attorney for twenty years. Immediately prior to her election, she was engaged in the private practice of law.

Other Judges Who Have Served the Court of Appeals of Georgia

1907-1913	Benjamin Harvey Hill, Jr.

1907-1916	Richard Brevard Russell, Sr.*

1907-1912	A. G. Powell

1912-1914	J. R. Pottle

1913-1914	L. S. Roan

1914-1919	Peyton L. Wade

1914-1947	Nash Rose Broyles

1916-1916	Robert Hodges

1917-1932	Oliver Hazzard Bartow Bloodworth

1917-1917	Walter Franklin George*

1917-1932	Roscoe Luke

1917-1937	William Franklin Jenkins*

1917-1918	Frank Harwell

1918-1943	Alexander William Stephens

1919-1920	Charles Whiteford Smith

1920-1922	Benjamin Harvey Hill

1922-1932	Reason Chestnutt Bell*

1932-1954	I. Homer Sutton*

1932-1932	Frank A. Hooper, Jr.

1932-1952	Hugh James MacIntyre

1933-1940	John Benjamin Guerry

1937-1969	Jule Wimberly Felton*

1940-1960	Bernard Clay Gardner, Sr.

1944-1949	David Monroe Parker

1947-1961	John Murphy Clagett Townsend

1949-1953	Charles William Worrill*

1952-1963	Ira Carlisle

1953-1960	Joseph Dillard Quillian*

1954-1966	Horace Elmo Nichols*

1960-1979	John Sammons Bell

1960-1967	John Eccleston Frankum*

1960-1972	Robert Henry Jordan*

1961-1974	Homer Christian Eberhardt

1961-1974	Robert H. Hall*

1961-1962	Vance Custer

1962-1965	Robert Lee Russell, Jr.

1963-1976	Charles Adams Pannell

1965-1990	Braswell D. Deen, Jr.

1966-1984	J. Kelley Quillian

1967-1967	George Stanley Joslin

1967-1972	George Price Whitman

1969-1976	Randall Evans, Jr.

1972-1977 H. Sol Clark

1972-1977	Irwin W. Stolz, Jr.

1974-1979	Julian Webb

1974-1977	Thomas O. Marshall*

1976-2000	William LeRoy McMurray, Jr.

1976-1980	George T. Smith*

1977-1984	Arnold Shulman

1977-1991	Harold R. Banke

1977-1998	A. W. Birdsong, Jr.

1979-1979	Norman L. Underwood

1979-1993	George H. Carley*

1980-1992	John W. Sognier

1981-2002	Marion T. Pope, Jr.

1984-1989	Robert Benham*

1984-1999	Dorothy Toth Beasley

1990-1994	Clarence Cooper

1996-2004	Frank M. Eldridge

* Judges who have serve both the Court of Appeals and

Supreme Court of Georgia

Court History Highlights

Upon the integrity, wisdom and independence of the judiciary depend the sacred rights of free men and women.

(Motto - Court of Appeals of Georgia)

Creation Statute:	July 31, 1906

Constitutional Amendment:	Ratified by the Public October 3, 1906

First Election:	November 6, 1906

First Session:	January 2, 1907

Original Courtroom:	Current State Appropriations Room, State Capitol

Relocation to Judicial Building:	Building Completed 1956

First Chief Judge:	Benjamin Harvey Hill, Jr.

Creation of Second Division:	1916

First African American Judge:	Robert Benham appointed April 3, 1984

First Woman Judge:	Dorothy Toth Beasley appointed October 1, 1984

First Clerk:	Logan Bleckley

Growth to Twelve Judges:	1999

Initial Caseload Filings:	155

2005 Caseload:	3,139

Oratorical Contest and Award of Scholarships

As a part of its Centennial celebration, the Court of Appeals of Georgia sponsored a state-wide high school oratorical contest which was held in September, 2006 at the State Bar Center in Atlanta. The topic for the contest was "The Separation of Powers and the Judicial Branch of Government." The purposes of the Contest were to educate students on the role of the judiciary in American government, to develop youth leadership qualities, and enhance the students' ability to think and speak clearly and intelligently.

Justice Served, Inc. has provided funding for scholarships awards to the final round winners to pay tuition or other legitimate educational expenses of attending any accredited college or university. These scholarships will be presented tonight to the winners. The scholarships are: for The First Place winner $7,500, the second place winner $5,000, the third place winner $2,500 and each of the quarter finalists $500.

Justice Served, Inc.

Purpose:	To enhance the knowledge of the citizens of the State of Georgia as to the history of the Court of Appeals of Georgia and vital role that all the courts in the State perform in providing equal justice to all.
Board of Directors

Honorable Marion T. Pope, Jr. Chairman

Hasty, Pope & Ball

Canton, Georgia

Mr. James H. Miller, III

Vice Chairman

Georgia Power Company

Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Lendon Gibbs

Royston, Georgia

Mr. Robert M. Brinson

Brinson, Askew, Berry Seigler, Richardson & Davis, LLP

Rome, Georgia

Mr. John J. Dalton

Troutman Sanders, LLP

Atlanta, Georgia

Ms. Dorothy Kirkley

Kirkley & Hawker, LLC

Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Paul W. Painter, Jr.

Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams, LLP

Savannah, Georgia

Mr. W. Ray Persons

King & Spaulding, LLP

Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Hugh Peterson, III

McNatt, Greene & Peterson

Vidalia, Georgia

Mr. R. Lindsey Thomas

AGL Resources

Atlanta, Georgia

Mr. Joel Wooten, Jr.

Butler, Wooten, & Fryhofer, LLP

Columbus, Georgia

Speaker

The Honorable William R. Wilson, Jr.

Judge, United States District Court, Eastern Arkansas

Appointed 1993, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1965,

B. A. Hendrix College, Arkansas

Former Attorney General of Arkansas

U.S. Navy 1966-1969

Employed with firm of Wilson, Engstrom, Corum & Dudley, Little
Rock, Arkansas

Acknowledgments

Event Sponsor

Georgia Power

Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick, Morrison &	Norwood, LLP

Foundation Sponsor

Butler, Wooten & Fryhofer, LLC

Gold Sponsor

Balch Bingham, LLP

Powell Goldstein, LLP

Troutman Sanders, LLP

Silver Sponsor

AGL Resources

Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP

Lexis Nexis

Table Sponsors

Brinson, Askew, Berry, Seigler, Richardson &	Davis, LLP

Buchanan & Land, LLP

Burr & Forman, LLP

Davis, Matthews & Quigley, PC

Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield, Knowles &
Devine, LLC

Dupree, King & Kimbrough, LLP

Ellis, Painter, Ratterree & Adams, LLP

Hall, Booth, Smith & Slover, PC

Table Sponsors (continued)

Hasty, Pope & Ball

Jones, Cork & Miller, LLP

King & Spalding, LLP

McNatt, Greene & Peterson

Russell Family

Schreeder, Wheeler & Flint, LLP

Stites & Harbison

Thomas and Associates

Other Acknowledgments

Mr. Jason Hardy and the Southeastern Festival of Soung

Court History Video

The video was produced by Bob McAteer of the Court of Appeals of Georgia Information Technology Department and funded by a grant from the Georgia Civil Justice Foundation. The Court expresses its thanks to the Directors of the Board of the Georgia Civil Justice Foundation and the many persons who contributed their time to aid in the production of this video documentary. Copies of this video will be used to educate students, the public and visitors to the Court about the purpose and history of the Court.

The Georgia Aquarium

The ship-shaped 550,000 square foot museum, which opened in November of 2005, holds 8 million gallons of water and has more than 100,000 animals, including the first whale sharks in an Aquarium in North America. Bernie Marcus, the Home Depot co-founder, contributed more than $250 million to build the world's largest aquarium. There are five distinct galleries - Explorer, River Scout, Cold Water Quest, Ocean Voyager and Tropical Diver, which features the world's largest coral exhibit.

The Georgia Aquarium has the largest viewing window in North American measuring 26 feet high . This window displays a underwater habitat of 6.2 gallons of water and stretches 263 feet long, 126 feet wide and 33 feet deep. From the seating in this gallery, a visitor can watch the incredible whale sharks glide by surrounded by the golden trevally.

The Georgia Aquarium also boasts a 100-foot long tunnel making visitors feel as if they are under the sea with fish from hammerhead sharks to giant groupers, large tooth sawfish, and other fish.