The former chief judge of the Lookout Mountain circuit—ousted as chief judge by two fellow judges within days of her appointment last September in an apparent coup—has filed court papers challenging the right of the current chief judge to remove her and assume the chief’s position for himself.
Kristina Cook Graham, a Superior Court judge in the Lookout Mountain Circuit in northwest Georgia, has filed a demand notice challenging the right of current Superior Court Chief Judge Ralph Van Pelt to sit as chief judge and requiring him to demonstrate under what authority he orchestrated Graham’s removal from the post.
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