JUDGE ANNE Elizabeth Barnes is not the first woman to serve as chief judge on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Former Judge Dorothy Toth Beasley made that piece of history in 1995.

But when she took the oath of chief judge before about 150 judges, lawyers, family and friends gathered in the State Judicial Building on Thursday, Barnes may have ushered in a new era of female leadership in the state’s appellate courts.

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