Fulton County Superior Court Judge Todd Markle has been named the 2016 “Outstanding Veteran’s Judge” by the State Bar of Georgia’s military and veterans law section and military legal assistance program and the Emory Law School veterans pro bono clinic.
As the presiding judge of the three-year-old Fulton County Veterans Court, an offshoot of the county’s “accountability courts” geared to defendants with substance abuse or mental health issues, Markle oversees a program that allows veterans facing criminal charges for nonviolent offenses to submit to treatment and court oversight in exchange for an opportunity to stay out of jail and—if they follow the rules—have their charges dismissed.
