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Former Commission Members | Members
of the Joint Commission
Members of the Joint Commission on Alternative
Dispute Resolution, September 1990 - February 1993
Joint Commission Mission
The Georgia Constitution of 1983 requires that the judicial branch
of government provide "speedy, efficient, and inexpensive resolution
of disputes and prosecutions." Pursuant to this constitutional
mandate, in September 1990 the Supreme Court of Georgia created
the Joint Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution under the
joint leadership of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
and the President of the State Bar of Georgia. The members of the
Joint Commission were appointed by then-Chief Justice Harold Clarke
and then-State Bar President Evans Plowden.
The Supreme Court directed the Joint Commission to explore the
feasibility of using court-referred ADR processes, particularly
mediation and non-binding arbitration, to complement existing dispute
resolution methods. The mission was to gather information, implement
experimental pilot programs, and draw up recommendations for a statewide,
comprehensive ADR system. (Funding for the early work of the Joint
Commission was provided by the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia
Civil Justice Foundation, the National Institute for Dispute Resolution,
and the Georgia Bar Foundation. The Georgia Bar Foundation provided
grants to the Joint Commission and its successor, the Georgia Commission
on Dispute Resolution, from 1991 to 1994.)
The Joint Commission studied the impact of ADR nationwide and analyzed
information gathered within the state from the bench, the bar, directors
of existing programs, private providers of ADR, and others. In September
1992, it recommended to the Supreme Court that ADR processes be
available to courts and litigants throughout the state.
A draft of these recommendations was widely circulated for comment
by the bench, bar, private providers of ADR, and others. In October
1992, the Supreme Court adopted the recommendations in the form
of rules that apply to court-ordered or court-referred ADR.
Joint Commission Membership
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Co-Chairperson
Harold G. Clarke, Chief Justice
Georgia Supreme Court
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Co-Chairperson
Evans J. Plowden, Jr., Esq.
Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless
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Permanent Chairperson
Jack H. Watson, Jr., Esq.
Long, Aldridge & Norman
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Joint Commission Members
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George H. Carley, Judge
Georgia Court of Appeals
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Hilton Fuller, Judge
Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit
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Thomas C. Chambers III, Esq.
Chambers, Rice & Rogers
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Mark A. Gonnerman, Esq.
Watson, Spence, Lowe & Chambless
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Martha C. Christian, Esq.
Stone & Christian, P.C.
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Paul Kilpatrick, Jr., Esq.
Pope, McGlamry, Kilpatrick & Morrison
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Chris Curle
WSB-TV
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Hugh Lawson, Chief Judge
Oconee Judicial Circuit
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Senator J. Nathan Deal, Esq.
Carey, Deal, Jarrard & Walker
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Charles T. Lester, Jr., Esq.
Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan
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Foy R. Devine, Esq.
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H. Worthington Lewis, Esq.
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Jack P. Etheridge, Esq.
Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc.
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Charles Thomas, Representative
District 69
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Reporter
Ansley B. Barton, Esq.
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