The state needs to do more to help people who can’t pay for lawyers and to aid the mental health of lawyers and judges, the chief justice of Georgia’s Supreme Court said Wednesday.
In a State of the Judiciary address to the General Assembly, Chief Justice Harold Melton also hailed retiring Associate Justice Robert Benham, the first African American to serve on the state’s high court.
“He is the father of the modern court – a court that is truly dedicated to the principle that all men and all women are equal, and all stand equal in the eyes of the law,” said Melton, who is also African American.
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