In this role, she is responsible for working with severe and persistently mentally ill defendants with a focus on health management, accountability in behavior, and therapy. Judge Jackson is the founding and presiding Judge of the felony mental health court in DeKalb County. Project Pinnacle is a co-ed program and Judge Jackson is dedicated to restoring young people to a respectful position in the community. The goal of Project Pinnacle is to discourage young people from committing further offenses by providing them with life skills training, legal rights, and responsibilities education, and career development opportunities. Because of her passionate commitment to the community and her belief in young people, Judge Jackson created Project Pinnacle, a one-year mandatory in-court experience for non-violent offenders under the age of 25. Judge Jackson was appointed by the President of the State bar to serve on the newly formed committee of the Georgia Business Court. She is very active in judicial leadership serving on numerous committees of The Statewide Judicial Council, The Council of Superior Court Judges and The Statewide Judicial Taskforce. In her current position, Judge Jackson presides over more than 1000 complex civil, felony criminal, and domestic cases assigned to her division. Her more notable cases include the representation of NFL football great Ray Lewis in a civil suit arising out of two murders after the Atlanta Super bowl and the representation of a funeral home sued after the owner of a North Georgia crematory failed to cremate hundreds of bodies.
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While practicing, Judge Jackson tried numerous cases to verdict including mass tort, personal injury, product liability, and professional negligence cases on behalf of corporate and individual defendants. Prior to becoming a Judge, Judge Jackson was a partner practicing commercial litigation out of the Atlanta office of Barnes and Thornburg, LLP and prior to this, she was a partner practicing tort litigation and professional negligence out of the Atlanta office of Carlock, Copeland, and Stair, LLP. Judge Jackson has the distinct honor of having clerked for her predecessor on the bench, Judge Michael Hancock just after graduating from law school. She was appointed to the bench in 2012 and twice elected in uncontested races in DeKalb County. Jackson is the Chief Judge of the Superior Court in DeKalb County, Georgia and the 4 th District Administrative Judge in the State of Georgia. Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, LA (2000)
The family court provides a forum to hear family issues, including maintenance, custody and access, and child protection matters.įor more information on Nova Scotia courts, visit. The provincial court presides over almost all indictable offence charges under the Criminal Code, a charge of murder by an adult accused being the main exception, and has exclusive jurisdiction over all summary offence charges under provincial and federal statutes and regulations. The committee recommendations are based on criteria in the Guidelines for Provincial Judicial Appointments. The committee includes two members of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, judges of the provincial and family courts, and four members appointed by the Minister of Justice. They are selected from a list of candidates put forth by the Committee on Provincial Judicial Appointments. Judges are appointed to both the provincial and family courts to allow flexibility in dealing with court workloads.
I'm confident she'll serve Nova Scotians well." "In addition to her years of experience in the justice system, she is an active member of the Yarmouth community. Christenson to the bench," said Attorney General and Justice Minister Lena Diab. Before that, she was in private practice, working primarily in family law. Most recently, she worked as a senior Crown attorney in Yarmouth, having joined the Public Prosecution Service in 2003. Christenson was called to the bar in 1996 and has been active in Yarmouth's legal community since then. Michelle Christenson is Nova Scotia's newest provincial and family court judge.
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