Arrington, Marvin
Marvin S. Arrington Sr., a retired Fulton County judge and former Atlanta City Council president, died Wednesday at age 82.
Funeral arrangements will be announced at a later time.
A native Atlantan, Arrington has been a fixture of the city's politics since the late 1960s. He graduated from Emory University Law School in 1967 as one of the school's first Black graduates.
Arrington was elected to the Atlanta Board of Aldermen in 1969 at age 28. He became an Atlanta councilman after the 1974 city charter amendment changed the board into the city council that governs Atlanta today. Arrington became Atlanta's city council president in 1980.
In 1989, Arrington joined civil rights attorney Donald Hollowell to form the Arrington and Hollowell law firm. Years later, Arrington unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Atlanta against Bill Campbell during the 1997 election. In 2002, then-Gov. Roy Barnes appointed Arrington to Fulton County Superior Court Judge. He retired from the bench in 2012.
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