Thelma W. Cummings Moore

Since her initial judicial appointment by the Honorable Maynard H. Jackson more than thirty years ago, Judge Moore has achieved a litany of “firsts”.  She was the first woman to serve full-time on the benches of the Atlanta Municipal Court and the City Court of Atlanta and the first African-American woman to serve on the State Courts of Georgia.  She is the first woman to serve as Chief Judge of the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia’s busiest trial court of general jurisdiction and the first African-American woman to serve as Chief Administrative Judge of any Judicial Circuit in Georgia.  She was re-elected to the bench six times.

Judge Moore has since retired from the bench after 31 years of service and she engages in the practice of law with MOORE LAW, LLC, where she serves as Legal Counsel to the Ethics Board of a Georgia municipality, governmental entities, major corporations and institutions.  Judge Moore has also served on the Emory law School Council, the Board of the Center for Ethics at Emory University, the Emory University Board of Visitors and the Emory University Board of Trustees.

Judge Moore is the architect of the Fulton County Family Court and the Family Law Information Center, innovative projects and the first of their kind in Georgia, providing access to justice for all.  Among her accomplishments, Judge Moore coordinated strategies to develop a state-of –the-art justice information system, obtained significant grants to implement intergovernmental computer connectivity, expanded alternative dispute resolution and implemented justice system collaboration. Judge Moore has co-chaired a first-of-its-kind symposium on criminal justice to insure fairness, justice, equality, safety and security.