Cobb County State Court Chief Judge M. Russell Carlisle Jr. has reason to believe his job places an unusual amount of strain on his heart.
As he told the story during a recent conversation in his chambers, he had a heart attack last October while attending a judges’ conference at Jekyll Island. The pain was so intense he thought he was going to die. His life was saved because his wife-Jan Carlisle, also an attorney-quickly drove him across the long causeway to a hospital in nearby Brunswick. Then, he took a dramatic trip by ambulance-complete with an interstate highway breakdown and a near fatal spill from a gurney into traffic while being moved to a second ambulance-to another hospital in Jacksonville, where he was given stints for two blocked coronary arteries and medication for a third.
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