Judith Hawkins

Former Judge Judith Warren Hawkins has practiced law for over forty-years. She has been an associate in a law practice, a sole practitioner, the owner of a law firm, an elected judge, and an adjunct professor. In a legal capacity, she has sat in almost every chair in the courtroom as either a: witness, defendant, plaintiff, defense lawyer, public defender, agency counsel, friend of the court, or judge. She only missed sitting in the prosecutor’s seat.

Judith is a the first African American county court judge, the first female African American county court judge, and the first African American judge to win a contested election in the Second Judicial Circuit. A 1973 graduate of Andrews University, Hawkins obtained a master’s degree from The Ohio State University in 1977 and earned a Juris Doctor from Florida State University College of Law in 1984.