Magistrate Court

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The Clayton County Magistrate Court is the fourth busiest magistrate court in the State of Georgia. The court handles over 33,000 cases per year with four full-time judges, four part-time judges and three full-time support personnel.

Magistrate court jurisdiction includes: civil disputes involving $15,000.00 or less, certain misdemeanor criminal offenses, landlord/tenant disputes, county ordinance violations, preliminary hearings in felony and misdemeanor criminal cases and the consideration and issuance of arrest warrants and search warrants.

The Clayton County Magistrate Court also serves in an assisting role to the Superior Court of Clayton County by handling Family Violence Protective Order Petitions and conducting bond hearings in certain felony cases.

Chief Judge Daphne M. Walker

Associate Judge Robert F. Dolph bio

Judge Bobby D. Simmons, Presiding Associate Magistrate Judge Judge Richard C. Brown, Associate Magistrate Judge Judge Betrice A. Scott  Associate Magistrate Judge

Latonia Marks, Administrative Judiciary Secretary to Chief Judge Daphne M. Walker Mandy Adams, Judiciary Secretary to Chief Judge Daphne M. Walker LaDonna Jackson, Judiciary Secretary to Judge Bobby D. Simmons Marie Chery, Judiciary Secretary to Judge Richard C. Brown Frances Brown, Receptionist/Principal Secretary to All Part-Time Judges