Our Mission

Committee Members

The Current Membership of the Implementation Committee

  • Justice Harris Hines, Supreme Court of Georgia, Chair
  • Dr. Normer Adams, Georgia Association of Homes and Services for Children, Executive Director
  • Ms. Isabel Blanco, Division of Family and Children Services, Deputy Director
  • Attorney Kathleen Dumitrescu, Atlanta Volunteer Lawyer Foundation
  • Attorney Robert Grayson, Cobb County, Special Assistant Attorney General
  • Judge Kevin Guidry, Piedmont Circuit Juvenile Court
  • Judge Jackson Harris, Cherokee County Superior Court
  • Mr. Duaine Hathaway, Georgia CASA, Executive Director
  • Judge Michael Key, Troup County Juvenile Court
  • Ms. Lisa Lariscy, Division of Family and Children Services Regional Director
  • Judge James Morris, Senior Judge
  • Judge Desiree Peagler, Dekalb County Juvenile Court
  • Judge Tom Rawlings, Office of the Child Advocate
  • Judge Lawton Stephens, Western Judicial Circuit
  • Judge Peggy Walker, Douglas County Juvenile Court
  • Attorney W. Terence Walsh, Alston & Bird, Chair of the State Bar Committee Children and the Courts

The Past Membership of the Implementation Committee

  • Attorney Stephanie Baldauff, Office of the Attorney General
  • Attorney Sylvia Caley, Georgia Legal Services
  • Ms. Carol Campbell, Former Division of Family and Children Services Director
  • Virgil Costley, Newton County Juvenile Court (retired)
  • Judge Bryant Culpepper, Bibb County Superior Court, Former Chair
  • Ms. Diane Drennan, Permanent Homes Program
  • Stephen Franzen, Gwinnett County Juvenile Court
  • Judge Cliff Jolliff, Hall County Juvenile Court Judge
  • Judge Sanford Jones, Fulton County Juvenile Court
  • Attorney Vicki Kimbrell, Georgia Legal Services
  • Attorney Nikki Marr, Former DeKalb County Juvenile Court Judge
  • Judge George Hearn, Walton County Juvenile Court
  • Ms. Susan Phillips, Children's Trust Fund, Executive Director
  • Judge Ronald Rentz, Early and Clay County Juvenile Court Judge
  • Attorney DeAlvah Simms, Former Director of the Office of the Child Advocate
  • Judge Hugh Stone, Chief Superior Court Judge, Enotah Circuit
  • Ms. Doris Walker, Division of Family and Children Services, Director of Foster Care