State Court Judge

Governor Brian Kemp appointed Angela Reedy O’Conor as the first State Court Judge in Paulding County. The creation of a State Court allows Paulding County to provide a more efficient way of handling the disposition of all misdemeanors and traffic citations, which in turn will allow for the more effective handling of the felony matters before the Superior Court. In addition to misdemeanors, civil actions over which the State Court has jurisdiction may also be filed in State Court.

In 2017,  Judge O'Conor was appointed as the Paulding Circuit Public Defender by the Director of Georgia Public Defenders Council and served in that capacity until her appointment as State Court Judge. Judge O’Conor moved to Paulding County from Cobb County where she served four years as an Assistant District Attorney for Cobb District Attorney’s Office and six years as a Marietta Police Officer.  During the time on patrol at Marietta she completed law school at John Marshall Law School.

Judge O’Conor was raised in East Tennessee with her identical twin sister and her two other siblings.   She attended University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and interned with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation prior to permanently moving to Georgia.