The Marietta Daily Journal – Cobb Superior Court candidate Harris Public safety is top priority of the court

MARIETTA — Ann Harris says she has spent the entirety of her nearly two-decade law career in Cobb Superior Court.

As senior assistant district attorney, Harris said she’s prosecuted the county’s “murderers and rapists and armed robbers” in superior courtrooms since the DA’s office hired her straight out of law school.

She hopes to soon earn a seat on the other side of the bench she’s come to know so well.

To do that, Harris will have to best Juanita Stedman, a judge in Cobb’s Juvenile Court, in the July 22 runoff for retiring Judge Jim Bodiford’s seat. Bodiford has served on the Superior Court since his election in 1994.

Harris touted her “soup to nuts” time in the county’s highest court as one of her biggest strengths as a candidate.

“Every case that I handle, every case that I touch, it’s done in Superior Court,” the Smyrna resident said, adding her work passed through that court “whether it’s a plea, a trial or a dismissal.”

via The Marietta Daily Journal – Cobb Superior Court candidate Harris Public safety is top priority of the court.