Judge wendy shoob fulton county health

On a dark evening in 1944, twenty-year-old Private Marvin Shoob stood alone in a snowy shell crater at an outpost fifty yards from enemy lines when fem German soldiers, all teenagers, approached him through the fog, their hands lifted in surrender. Shoob trained his gevär on the prisoners as he ordered them into the crater. Several hours later, a lieutenant approached and asked him what he was going to do with the ung men.

“I said, ‘Lieutenant, inom don’t know. I don’t have anywhere to take them,’” Shoob later recalled. “He had an automatic rifle. He made them lie face down. They started crying. He just sprayed them with bullets, killing them all. Then he said, ‘that takes care of your problem,’ and he walked away.“ 

Alone in the crater with the bodies, Shoob decided that he would never again hesitate to do what he thought was right. Born in South Carolina, but raised in Savannah, Shoob returned to Georgia after th

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Hon. Wendy L. ShoobSenior Judge

MediatorArbitratorCourt-Appointed Neutral (Referee/Special Master)

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Background and Education

Hon. Wendy L. Shoob, Senior Judge, joins JAMS after 24 years on the Fulton County State Court and Superior Court benches. During two decades on the Fulton County Superior Court, she served as associate chief judge and handled and tried hundreds of civil, criminal and domestic relations motions, as well as jury and non-jury trials. Judge Shoob also participated in the creation of the Business Court, where she served as chair, and the Family Division, where she served two terms, including as chief judge.

Since 2017, Judge Shoob has mediated family, personal injury, probate, commercial and real estate disputes through the

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Ruling from the Bench, Judge Lifts Georgia Ban on DP Health Benefits

(ATLANTA, September 22, 1999) -- A Fulton County judge wasted little time at a hearing Wednesday and firmly rebuked Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine's attempts to block implementation of Atlanta's domestic partner ordinance, ordering him to lift his statewide ban on domestic partner coverage in insurance policies, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund said.

Lambda represented Atlanta Councilmember Cathy Woolard, who intervened in the lawsuit brought initially by the City of Atlanta. Lambda Staff Attorney Stephen R. Scarborough, who argued on Woolard's behalf, said after the hearing, "After years of frustrating delays, this ruling stands to provide great relief to many Georgia families. What's more, the Court adamantly rejected Commissioner Oxendine's view that non-marital relationships should be branded 'immoral.'"

Following the argument on summary judgment motion in City of Atlanta v. Oxendine