Twiggs County Probate Judge Kenneth E. Fowler has a high school education. He is not a lawyer and has just 40 hours of training in how to administer justice in a county courtroom where he rules on misdemeanor offenses and traffic citations, fines defendants, sentences them and either places them on probation or sends them to jail.
Fowler’s courtroom practices and demeanor were on trial Thursday in a hearing before the state Judicial Qualifications Commission. If his courtroom conduct is lacking, the cause is Fowler’s ignorance of the law, lack of training and a state statute that does not require him to be an attorney or even hold a college degree, his attorney, Jon F. Helton of Hilbun and Helton in Dublin, argued before the JQC.
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