For Immediate Release:

Contact: Rosemary Taylor, 678-223-8828

Johns Creek selects Municipal Judges
Municipal Court opens June 19

JOHNS CREEK, Georgia—June 15, 2007—The Johns Creek City Council has approved the appointments of Donald Schaefer and Scott Carter as the City's first Municipal Judges in advance of the June 19 opening of its first Municipal Court at 11445 Johns Creek Parkway, Johns Creek.

Donald Schaefer is a partner in the private Decatur law firm of Brownlow & Schaefer, specializing in traffic and criminal law, and works as a part-time judge for the cities of Alpharetta, Sandy Springs and Loganville and the Recorder's Court of Dekalb County.

He served in the Atlanta City Court as a bailiff and clerk in its Traffic Court from 1980 to 1986 and then as Judge Pro Hac Vice from 1994 to 2003. He earned a law degree in 1982 from the Atlanta School of Law and received a Masters in Litigation from Woodrow Wilson School of Law in 1987.

A native of Levittown, Pennsylvania, Schaefer is currently a resident of Roswell and a member of the Atlanta Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

Scott Carter, in private practice in Chamblee since 2000, has been a Municipal Court Judge in the City of Doraville, Georgia for 18 years.

He worked with the Georgia board of Workers' Compensation from 1989 to 2000, first as a Staff Attorney, then as a Prosecuting Attorney and then as Division Director. He served as the lead counsel/prosecutor for the Board's "Fraud and Compliance Division."

Carter received a law degree in 1988 from the Woodrow Wilson College of Law, having earned a B.A. in Psychology from University of West Georgia in 1981.

A resident of Alpharetta, Carter is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association and the Council of Municipal Court Judges.

About the City of Johns Creek
The City of Johns Creek, Georgia is located in the northeast corner of Fulton County. It was incorporated December 1, 2006, following a voter referendum July 18, 2006.

For more information, visit the City of Johns Creek Web site at www.JohnsCreekGA.gov.

Press Contact:
Rosemary Taylor
Communications Manager
City of Johns Creek
P 678-223-8828

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