Citizens Hear from Candidates at Judicial Forum Held Sept. 21

They will appear on ballots on Nov. 2, but on Sept. 21, 13 candidates for highly contested judicial races in Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties appeared at the Maloof Auditorium here in DeKalb county.
Free to the public, the evening began with a reception followed by a forum moderated by Lisa Rayam, a news anchor at Fox5 in Atlanta.

Participating candidates included:
Angela Brown, Cobb County State Court-Division II
Judge Jim Bodiford, Cobb County Superior Court
Normarene Culver Merritt, Cobb County Superior Court
Joan P. Davis, Cobb County Superior Court
Yvonne Hawks, DeKalb County Superior Court
Courtney Johnson, DeKalb County Superior Court
Michael Rothenberg, DeKalb County Superior Court
Denise M. Warner, DeKalb County Superior Court
Chloe Dallaire, Fulton County Superior Court
Karlise Yvette Grier, Fulton County Superior Court
Clarence R. Johnson, Jr., Fulton County Superior Court
Kelly Amanda Lee, Fulton County Superior Court
Shelitha Robertson, Fulton County Superior Court

The event was sponsored by the DeKalb Bar Association, the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys and the National Forum of Black Public Administrators.