A senior judge in a North Georgia courtroom ruled Monday that judges in the state’s Lookout Mountain Circuit did not have the legal right to depose Superior Court Judge Kristina Cook Graham as the circuit’s chief judge, one of Graham’s lawyers told the Daily Report.
After an hourlong hearing, Senior Judge Grant Brantley agreed with Graham’s lawyers—Atlanta attorneys Emmet Bondurant and Michael Terry and Cartersville attorney Lester Tate—that two colleagues on the Superior Court bench, Judges Ralph Van Pelt and Brian House, had no authority to change procedures authorized by the state Legislature in 1992 so that they could oust Graham as chief judge and ordered her reinstated, Tate said after the hearing.
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