Judge Orion Douglass Receives Liberty Bell Award

From the The Brunswick News

The Glynn County Bar Association, Glynn County Chamber of Commerce, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and the College of Coastal Georgia recently hosted a Law Week luncheon at Epworth By The Sea.

This was the first ever joint celebration of Law Day with these community partners.

Chief Justice Carol Huntstein of the Georgia Supreme Court was the guest speaker and reflected on this year's Law Day theme, "No Courts, No Justice, No Liberty."

State Court Judge Orion L. Douglass received the Liberty Bell Award from the Glynn County Bar Association.

Douglass has served as the State Court Judge of Glynn County since his election in 1992 and recently announced his retirement from the Court effective 2012. He formerly served as judge of Brunswick's Municipal Court and is a past president of the Council of State Court Judges and a Fellow of the Lawyers Foundation of Georgia.

He was a member of the Georgia Supreme Court's Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts and a member of the Governor's Special Advisory Panel for the Handicapped.

He helped form the Fourteen Black Men of Glynn and is active with the Okefenokee Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Brunswick Second Presbyterian Church.

Pictured are Judge Orion Douglas and Jay Roberts, president of the Glynn County Bar Association and partner at Roberts Tate law firm.

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