The Honorable Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore
Superior Court of Fulton County
Atlanta Judicial Circuit

Judge Moore serves on the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies where she served as Co-Chair of the Criminal Justice component of the Health Policy Institute’s Dellums Commission in “Improving Life Options for Young Men of Color”.

Since her initial judicial appointment by the Honorable Maynard H. Jackson twenty-eight 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 has been re-elected to the bench six times.

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. 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. In recognition of her vision and achievements, Judge Moore received the United States Chief Justice Award for Judicial Excellence at a reception and dinner in her sole honor in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Judge Moore is a recipient of over 200 awards, including the 2006 Thurgood Marshall Award from the Judicial Council of the National Bar Association, the 2005 Gate City Bar Judicial Section Legacy Award, the 2004 NAACP Jondelle Johnson Legacy Award, Concerned Black Clergy President’s Award, Georgia Legislative Black Caucus Pacesetter Award and the Atlanta Business League Catalyst Award. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Los Angeles and completed a fellowship in Psychodynamics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Judge Moore earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence with Distinction at Emory University where she was inducted into the Order of the Coif. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated. A prolific writer, speaker and producer of historical videos, Judge Moore also serves on the Board of the Joseph E. Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights at Clark Atlanta University.