Carol W. Hunstein

Carol W. Hunstein

Carol W. Hunstein is the Presiding Justice of the U.S. State Supreme Court of Georgia.

Education

Hunstein was born in Miami, Florida on August 16, 1944. By age 23, she was a divorced, single mother who had lost her left leg to cancer.cite web | url = http://www.law.stetson.edu/TheLawyer/pdfs/42-1-6.pdf | title = Stetson University College of Law: Alumni Serving in the Judiciary | publisher = Stetson University College of Law | accessdate = 2006-12-18] However, she overcame this adversity receiving an Associate's degree from Miami-Dade Community College in 1970, and shortly thereafter a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in 1972. Upon graduation from FAU, Hunstein enrolled in the Stetson University College of Law. In 1976, she received her Juris Doctor, was admitted to the Georgia Bar Association, and subsequently went into private practice.cite web
title = Re-Elect Justice Carol W. Hunstein - Carol's Bio
publisher = The Committee to Re-Elect Justice Carol W. Hunstein
url =http://www.hunsteinforjustice.com/bio.html
accessdate = 2006-12-17]

Career

Carol Hunstein moved from Florida to Atlanta, Georgia in 1976. Having established herself in the legal community by 1984, she ran for and won election to the Superior Court in DeKalb County. Hunstein ran under the slogan “This woman this time,’’ and upon election became the first female superior court judge in the county.

In November 1992, Hunstein was nominated to the Supreme Court of Georgia by Governor Zell Miller. She is the second woman in Georgia history to serve in this position. Since her nomination to the court in 1992, Hunstein has been re-elected by voters three times, mostly recently in November 2006.

Hunstein also serves as an adjunct professor at the Emory University School of Law.cite web | url = http://www.gasupreme.us/justices_bios.php | title = The Supreme Court of Georgia: Justices' Biographies | publisher = Supreme Court of Georgia | accessdate = 2006-12-18]

References

External links

* [http://www.hunsteinforjustice.com/ Hunstein's Official Campaign Website]
* [http://www.gasupreme.us/justices_bios.php#hunstein Hunstein's Supreme Court of Georgia Biography]


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