Judge J. Carlisle Overstreet Becomes President of Council of Superior Court Judges.
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ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002
Elected by the Council of Superior Court Judges of Georgia at its annual meeting earlier in the year, Judge J. Carlisle Overstreet, Augusta Judicial Circuit, Augusta became president on May 1 for the 2002-03 year.
Also elected were Judge Martha C. Christian, Macon Judicial Circuit, Macon, president-elect, and Judge H. Gibbs Flanders, Jr., Dublin Judicial Circuit, Dublin, secretary-treasurer. Their terms will expire April 30, 2003.
Judge Overstreet was appointed to the superior court bench on November 1, 1991 by Gov. Zell Miller and was elected to subsequent four-year terms. He serves as judge for Burke, Columbia and Richmond counties. Prior to his appointment, he served as judge of the Municipal Court for the City of Augusta (1988-91) and practiced law with the firm of Sanders, Hester and Holley and its successors (1970-78), and as a sole practitioner (1978-91).
Judge Overstreet attended the Academy of Richmond County and the University of Georgia before earning his B.A. degree from Augusta College in 1967. In 1970 he received his Juris Doctor degree from the Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, Macon.
Judge Overstreet has served his alma mater as a past board member of the Augusta College Foundation, Inc., the Augusta College Athletic Association and the Augusta College Alumni Association. He has been active on the Advisory Board of the YWCA and formerly was chairperson of the Board of Visitors of the law school at Mercer University. He has also served on the Board of Deacons, Convenant Presbyterian Church, Augusta. He and his wife, Shara, have two children, Jim and Baker.
Judge Overstreet formerly was Secretary-Treasurer of the Council of Superior Court Judges and chairman of its Personnel Committee. He also serves on the Search Committee of the Judicial Council of Georgia, participating in its effort to select a new director of the state Administrative Office of the Courts.
The Council of Superior Court Judges is composed of the state's superior court judges and senior (retired) superior court judges. It was established by the state legislature in 1985 to further the improvement of the superior courts and the administration of justice in Georgia. The council seeks to identify and propose solutions to problems common to all judges and, through its central office, promotes long-range planning efforts, develops bench publications and updates, provides legal assistance to judges assigned death penalty habeas corpus cases, lends administrative support to panels reviewing prison sentence length and furnishes resource information.
The newly elected officers, immediate past president and administrative judges representing the ten judicial administrative districts in Georgia comprise the Council of Superior Court Judges' executive committee, which is authorized to manage the projects and policies of the council. The council's central office is located in Atlanta.
