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JUDGE CLINTON E. DEVEAUX

In August 2004, Judge Clinton E. Deveaux was appointed Presiding Judge of the Atlanta Community Court Division by Chief Judge Deborah Greene of the Atlanta Municipal Court.  Judge Deveaux was appointed to the Atlanta Municipal Court on January 20, 1981, by Mayor Maynard Jackson and re-elected to the court in 1985 and each Atlanta election since.

The Atlanta Municipal Court has criminal jurisdiction and hears a high volume of domestic violence, substance abuse, and first offender cases.  From May 1994 until January 2003, Judge Deveaux's calendar contained domestic and family violence cases exclusively.  The Atlanta Municipal Court created this specialized calendar in response to a major revision of Georgia's domestic violence law.

To more effectively handle these cases, Judge Deveaux studied how families function, how relationships affect individual behavior and the ways in which criminal behavior reflects family dysfunction.  Judge Deveaux developed a Court Family Therapy referral Program.  In the program, experienced family therapists help defendants change their behavior by helping them understand the legal requirements of accountability and consequence.

Judge Deveaux serves on the visiting faculty of the Family Institute of New Jersey and is a Trustee of the National Judicial College.  He has made presentations and taught at:  The National Judicial College from 1995 through 2000; The Georgia Institute for Continuing Judicial Education each year since 2001; The 1993, 1994 and 1995 American Bar Association annual meetings in New York, new Orleans and Chicago; the 1989 through 1994 National Conferences of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Education; The National Adolescent Drug Abuse and Mental Health Treatment Conference; The Eastern States Conference of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry; The Culture, Class, Race and Gender Conference of the Family Institute of New Jersey; The Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and the South Carolina Cross-Cultural Mental Health Conference.

Judge Deveaux is a former public member of the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education.  He is active in the National Conference of Special Court Judges of the American Bar Association.  He is immediate past Chair of the Board of Advisors of Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty and is an active participant in the Judicial Summit of the Black Community Crusade for Children.  Judge Deveaux is a husband, father and grandfather.