Atlanta Council slices number of municipal judges
The Atlanta City Council voted 9-5 on Monday to not fill two judgeship vacancies at the Atlanta Municipal Court
The move would eliminate one vacant position and one that will be vacant later this month and drops the number of judges from 10 to eight.
In March, a city audit suggested that the court could run with five judges for a projected savings of $2.3 million.
Bill sponsor Felicia Moore, along with Carla Smith, Cleta Winslow, Natalyn Archibong, Alex Wan, Howard Shook, Yolanda Adrean, Joyce Sheperd, and Michael Bond voted for the change. Ivory Young, C.T. Martin, Aaron Watson, Keisha Bottoms and Lamar Willis voted against it.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
