Congratulations to Judge-Elect Kelly Amanda Lee who won election to the Fulton County Superior Court bench.

Thank you to all of my supporters for your prayers and your contributions of money, time, and talents.  I greatly appreciate your kindness, encouragement, and support.

I have returned to the full-time practice of family law.  If you need assistance with a divorce, adoption, child custody or other family law matter, please contact me at (404) 658-9999 or visit my law firm's web site at www.grierlawofficepc.com.

Karlise Yvette Grier

JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE

•Judicial Officer, Fulton County Superior Court Family Division (former)

•Judge Pro Hac Vice, former City Court of Atlanta (“Traffic Court”)

LEGAL EXPERIENCE

•Managing Attorney, Grier Law Office, P.C., a firm concentrating in complex domestic relations matters

•Fellow, Supreme Court of Georgia Committee on Justice for Children Cold Case Project

                 •View the Cold Case Project Report

• Special Assistant Attorney General, Georgia Department of Human Resources (former)

• Assistant Solicitor General, State Court of Fulton County (former)

• Associate Attorney, Kilpatrick & Cody n/k/a Kilpatrick Stockton LLP (former)

EDUCATION

•Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1992

•Dartmouth College, B.A., Computer Science with additional emphasis in Economics, 1986

•Frederick Douglass High School, Atlanta, Georgia, Diploma, 1982

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

•Fellow, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys

•Barrister, Charles Longstreet Weltner Family Law Inn of Court

•Fellow, Lawyers Foundation of Georgia

•Member, Lawyers Club of Atlanta

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

•Member, United Methodist Church

•Founding Director (Volunteer), GABWA Sister-to-Sister Mentoring Project, a Fulton County Juvenile Court program for at-risk girls.  Hear from the Sister-to-Sister Mentoring Project's Executive Director by clicking here.

•Co-Founder, Civil Pro Bono-Family Law Project, a program of legal services to assist incarcerated mothers with family-law matters

•Board Member, Fulton County Child Attorney Office Board

•Board Member, Butler Street YMCA

•Past President (2001) and Member, Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys ("GABWA")

•Board Member, State Bar of Georgia Board of Governors, Atlanta Circuit, Post # 30

•Member, Atlanta Business League

•Member, Emory Law Alumni Association Executive Committee

•Trustee, Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Georgia Board of Trustees

•Member, Georgia Association of Women Lawyers

•Member, Stonewall Bar Association