Judge-Elect Kimberly Childs to be Sworn In Dec. 19

MARIETTA, GA -- Cobb County Superior Court Judge-Elect Kimberly Childs will be sworn in Monday in the Haynes Street building's Ceremonial Courtroom.

Childs campaigned on a promise to be a people's judge. She started her career as a jail guard in metro Atlanta. She worked as a paralegal full time while attending law school at Georgia State University. She soon opened up a law firm in Smyrna, focusing on business cases.

She has said that her background prepared her to see all sides of the justice system in Cobb County.

Cobb County Superior Court honored retiring Judge Adele Grubbs at a ceremony Thursday evening.

Childs spoke at the event as did Grubbs, who told well-wishers at the event that she doesn't know what God has in store for her after she relinquishes her seat.

“I’m standing here still amazed that I ever was a Superior Court judge,” she said, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. “We came here in April of 1967. I was 22 years old and didn’t have a clue what was going to happen to me. … I had no idea that one day I would be chief judge of Cobb Superior Court. You understand how impossible that is?"

Childs takes office in Cobb County Superior Court on Jan. 1.

What: Administration of the Oath & Investiture

When: 3:00 p.m.

Where: Cobb County Superior Court, 70 Haynes St. Ceremonial Courtroom (2nd floor) Marietta, GA 30060