Mike Jacobs is a trial judge on the State Court of DeKalb County, Georgia. Prior to his judicial service, Jacobs was a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives representing District 80. JIn 2018, Jacobs became the first sitting judge in the United States to come out as bisexual.[2] He is also the first openly LGBTQ countywide elected official in DeKalb County history. acobs earned his law degree (J.D.) from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2003 and his bachelor's degree (B.A.) from Georgetown University in 1997.
Wayne M. Purdom is a judge of the DeKalb County State Court in Georgia. He earned is law degree from Emory University School of Law and became a practicing judge in 1983.
Dax attended Vanderbilt University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. He obtained his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School, where he served as president of the Vanderbilt Bar Association and as an editor on the Vanderbilt Journal Transnational Law. After graduation, Dax served as the law clerk for the Hon. Hector M. Laffitte in the Federal District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Dax returned to Atlanta in 2002 to commence his career as an attorney at Holland & Knight, LLP, where he practiced in the complex civil litigation group for three years. In 2005, Dax joined the litigation group at Ashe, Rafuse & Hill, where he handled class actions, employment matters, and product liability cases. In 2008, Dax furthered his commercial litigation experience by joining the litigation group at Foltz & Martin LLC.Dax is a past president of the Georgia Hispanic Bar Association. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.
Judge Janis Gordon of DeKalb County State Court graduated from Emory University in 1975 and received an M.A. degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1976. In 1979, she graduated from Duke University School of Law. She spent the next 23 years prosecuting complex multi-defendant criminal cases in the U.S. attorney’s office in Atlanta. In 2002, Gov. Roy Barnes appointed her to the DeKalb County State Court bench.