Paul Kurtz
Associate Dean
District 10
University of Georgia School of Law
Athens, Georgia 30602
706-542-7140
Fax Number: 706-542-5283
Email: pmkurtz@arches.uga.edu

Paul M. Kurtz earned his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University , a law degree from Vanderbilt Law School and a master of laws degree from Harvard Law School . Kurtz has been a member of the University of Georgia School of Law faculty since 1975, specializing in criminal law, family law, and constitutional law. He has served as the law school's associate dean since 1991. Very active in legislative issues, Kurtz served as the reporter for the Georgia Supreme Court's Indigent Defense Reform Commission (2000-2003), which was the driving force behind landmark legislation enacted in 2003. He was instrumental on the Public Interest Loan Repayment task force that wrote legislation creating a state fund for this cause, which was passed by the Georgia Legislature in 2002. In 2001, Kurtz was appointed as a commissioner to represent Georgia on the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. He had previously served as a reporter for the NCCUSL and was a member of the drafting committee of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act from 1988 to 1992. Kurtz also served as a reporter to the NCCUSL drafting committee on the Status of Children of Assisted Conception from 1987 to 1988. In addition, he is a member of the American Law Institute and served as advisor on the ALI Project on Principles of Family Dissolution from 1998 to 1999.

Judge Willie Lockette
Judge, Dougherty County Superior Court
District 2
225 Pine Avenue, Dougherty County
Courthouse
Albany, Georgia 31702
229-431-2186
Fax Number: 229-431-2174
Email: welockette@bellsouth.net

Judge Willie Earl Lockette received his B.A. in History and Political Science from Fort Valley State College in 1971 and his law degree from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1974. He was elected as Superior Court Judge of Dougherty County in 1996 and is serving his second term after his re-election in 2000. From 1991 to1996, Judge Lockette served as Chief and Associate Judge for the Magistrate Court of Dougherty County , and from 1993 to 1996, was an adjunct professor in Political Science and Public Administration at Albany State College University . From 1974 to 1993, he practiced as a managing and staff attorney at Georgia Legal Services Programs, Inc., in Albany . Judge Lockette has been a member of the State Bar since 1974 and is a member of the Dougherty Circuit Bar Association and C.B. King Bar Association. His other activities include serving as a Baptist Minister for New Oak Grove Baptist Church and member of the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and the Georgia Commission on Equality.

E. Lee Morris III
District 5
S&W Management, Inc
2500 Equitable Building
100 Peachtree Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30303-6801
404-522-8888
Fax Number: 404-521-6204
Email: elmorris@sw-sn.com

E. Lee Morris III was born in Greenville, Alabama on April 16, 1949 and grew up in a military family moving often.  He attended Duke University and after graduating in just three years in 1970, he practiced as a Certified Public Accountant in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He then enrolled in Emory University School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal.  After receiving his J.D. in 1976, Morris practiced tax, corporate and pension law in Atlanta for nine years.  For the past 22 years, he has served as General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer for Stevens & Wilkinson, an Atlanta-based architectural-engineering firm.  In 1993 Morris was elected to the District 7 seat on the Atlanta City Council where he served two terms and was an outspoken critic of corruption and waste in government, a proponent of stronger environmental policy, new urbanism, alternatives to automobile-oriented policies and campaign finance reform.  He served on the Board of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) from August 2002 to February 2006.  Morris has been deeply involved in community affairs since coming to Atlanta in 1973.  He has coached youth sports, taken an active and leading role in numerous neighborhood, business and community associations and has been active for 28 years in his church, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal.  He currently serves on the boards of the Regional Atlanta Civic League, Midtown Alliance, the Atlanta Urban League, and PEDS (Pedestrians Educating Drivers on Safety, Inc.).  Morris and his wife, Gilda, have been married 29 years and have three children.

Donald Fredrick Oliver
Walker County Attorney
District 7
P. O. Box 445
LaFayette, GA 30728-0445
706-638-1437
Fax Number: 706-638-1453
Email:donoliver@co.walker.ga.us

Donald F. Oliver, is the County Attorney for Walker County.  Oliver received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Georgia in 1980.  Before becoming the County Attorney for Walker County, Oliver was in private practice and briefly served as the City Judge for Chickamauga.  Oliver also served two terms in the Georgia House of Representatives as the representative from the 1st District.  Oliver is the Immediate Past President of the County Attorney section of the Association  County Commissioners of Georgia and will serve as the Standards Council liaison with the Association.  Oliver is married to the former Helen Wyatt of Paris, Tennessee.  They have two children: Wyatt, age 19; and Savannah, age 16.  Oliver and his family presently live on a farm in southern Walker County, where they raise hay, horses, longhorn cattle, and buffalo.

Wycliffe Orr
Orr & Orr
District 9
641 Sprint Street, NE
Gainesville, Georgia 30501
770-534-1980
Fax Number: 770-536-5910
Email: eworr@orrlawfirm.com

E. Wycliffe Orr, Sr., graduated from Auburn in 1968 with a degree in Accounting and went on to finish first in his law school class at the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1970. After law school, Orr enlisted in the army where he was a Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps before ultimately serving as the Chief Prosecutor for the 8 th Infantry Division jurisdictional area. From the army, Orr went into the private sector, where he has been very successful. He presently works in his own practice with his daughter Kris at Orr & Orr. In 1989, he was elected as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives, where he held office until 1993. While a member of the House, he was an advocate for education, children's welfare and the environment. Civic involvement has been a hallmark of Orr's career. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Georgia Indigent Defense Council, past President and Chairman of the Board of the Hall County Unit of the American Cancer Society, and Co-Founder and President of the Lanier Educational Foundation. Orr presently serves as president of the Gainesville-Northeastern Circuit Bar Association.

Mr. William C. Rumer
Grogan, Rumer & Gunby
District 3
944 Second Avenue
P. O. Box 1846
Columbus, GA 31902
706-323-1846
Fax Number: 706-327-3958
Email: williamcrumer@bellsouth.net

Judge Mark Anthony Scott
Judge, Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit Superior Court
District 4
6210 DeKalb County Courthouse
556 North McDonough Street
Decatur, GA  30030
404-371-7010
Fax Number: 404-687-3978
Email: markascottesq@bellsouth.net

Judge Mark Anthony Scott was elected as a Superior Court Judge in the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit in August, 2004.  Judge Scott presides over civil, domestic relations, and criminal felony matters. Judge Scott enlisted in the United States Air Force where he earned an Associate of Science Degree in Business Administration. The Air Force recognized his strong desire to continue his college education and offered him a scholarship and commission through “Operation Bootstrap” at California State University, Fresno. There, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Communication in 1980.  Judge Scott was honorably discharged after serving in the United States Air Force for 3 ½ years. Judge Scott earned his J.D. degree from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. in 1984.Prior to being elected as a Superior Court Judge, Judge Scott’s primary legal concentration focused on criminal defense work throughout the United States.  He previously served on the faculty of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Judge Scott is the Immediate Past President of the DeKalb Bar Association, where his passion for the law serves as a voice for the DeKalb County legal community. Judge Scott and his wife, Joan, have been married over 30 years and have two adult sons.

Stephen Elliott Tillman, Esq.(Vice-chair)
District 1
Attorney at Law
4 South Lee Street
Baxley, GA 31513
912-367-2500
Fax number: 912-367-2562
Email: setlaw@bellsouth.net

Jerry Word
Circuit Public Defender, Coweta Judicial Circuit
District 6
306 Tanner Street
Carrollton, Georgia 30117
770-830-1323
Fax Number: 770-830-0715
Email: gpword@aol.com

Gerald P. Word received his A.B. from West Georgia College and his law degree from the Emory University School of Law. He was admitted to the State Bar in 1975 is currently the Circuit Public Defender for the Coweta Judicial District. Word has been on the State Bar's Board of Governors since 1988 , has served twice on the Federal Defenders Board (1983 to 1989 and 1999 to 2003) , and has been on the Georgia Indigent Defense Council board since 1998. He has been a member of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association since 1976 and is a member of the Carroll County Bar Association and the Coweta Circuit Bar Association. Word served as the contract defender for Carroll County from 1989 to 1994. He returned to contract defense work in 1999. Word has also been involved with the Bill Glass Prison Ministry since 1983 and won "Foster Parent of the Year" in Carroll County in 198 7. He has raised over twenty foster children.