With 91 percent of the vote in at 9:30 p.m., Kelly Amanda Lee has won the race for a soon-to-be vacant seat on the Fulton County Superior Court, pulling 16,113 votes, for 65.1 percent, over 8,651, or 35.6 percent, for rival Shelitha Robertson. Lee took an early lead, running almost 2-to-1 over Robertson since shortly after the polls closed.
Lee’s successful bid for the seat left open by retiring Judge Melvin K Westmoreland fulfills a goal she has been pursuing strongly since her first run for the Superior Court in 2008. She has since been included on the short list for vacancies on the State and Superior courts, and name is on a current short list for the Fulton County State Court seat vacated by former Chief Judge Albert L. Thompson, who retired in September.
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