NOVEMBER LUNCHEON: Judge Dorothy Beasley Speaks on “Impunity Arrested – International Response to International Crimes”

by Christina Hendrix, Hendrix Law Firm, P.C.

Judge Dorothy Beasley of the Georgia Court of Appeals, retired, will speak on international criminal law at the luncheon on Nov. 19 in the Old Courthouse on the square in downtown Decatur. It’s a topic she thinks “we all should know more about” in today’s legal world. Judge Beasley’s long interest in international law became more than a hobby when Emory University presented her with an opportunity to study abroad for an LLM in International Law. Judge Beasley spent her first semester abroad in Budapest at the Central European University. She received her LLM from Emory in 2008.

Judge Beasley completed her undergraduate work at Eastern Academy, St. Lawrence University. Shortly before attending law school, Judge Beasley worked for the U.S. Department of State. While in law school at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she received her LLB, she worked for a U.S. congressman, a law firm, and the Urban Land Institute. After law school Judge Beasley clerked for the Circuit Court in Virginia, and then practiced law in a private firm.

Judge Beasley moved to Georgia where she worked for Fisher & Phillips in Atlanta. Thereafter, she began serving as an assistant attorney general for Georgia and represented the state in a number of cases before the United States Supreme Court. After leaving the Attorney General’s Office, Judge Beasley represented the United States as a U.S. attorney.

Governor George Busbee appointed Judge Beasley to become a State Court judge in Fulton County in 1977. To retain the position, she had to run almost immediately, and she won that race in 1978. In 1984 Governor Joe Frank Harris appointed Judge Beasley to the Court of Appeals for the state of Georgia. Judge Beasley served the people of Georgia on the Court of Appeals for 15 years. She sat as chief judge during the 1995-1996 term.

Please join us at our November luncheon to hear one of Georgia’s most esteemed judges share her expertise in an area that gains importance daily.

Christina Hendrix practices in the areas of Criminal Defense and Immigration Law.