Kenneth (Ken) B. Hodges III is a state judge and former District Attorney for Dougherty County, Georgia in the United States and is a Democrat candidate for Georgia Attorney General in 2010. By 2015, Hodges started a firm his own law, Ken Hodges Law, based in Atlanta and Albany. Hodges won an open seat at the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2018.
Hodges was born and raised in Albany, Georgia and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Sociology from Emory University in 1988 and his law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1991. His wife Melissa grew up in Gwinnett County and graduated from The Marist School in Atlanta. He holds degrees from Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana and works as a news anchor and television reporter. The couple married in 2004 and currently live in Albany, GA with their daughter and son.
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Careers
After graduating from law school at the University of Georgia, Hodges worked at an Atlanta law firm before returning home to Albany, Georgia, in 1996 to run a successful campaign for the DA. Hodges served as District Attorney for 12 years, re-elected in 2000 and 2004.
During his career as a lawyer and District Attorney for Dougherty County, Hodges has argued before the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Georgia Supreme Court. Hodges was instrumental in the 2002 prosecution of Sidney Dorsey, former DeKalb County Sheriff who ordered the murder of his successor, Derwin Brown. In the end, Dorsey was found guilty of eleven charges, including murder and extortion.
Ken Hodges also served as President of the Georgia District Attorney Association and was recognized in 2002 as Georgia District Attorney of the Year. He also heads the Public Prosecution Service (PAC), and a Fellow at the Georgia Bar Association.
He is a graduate of Albany Leadership and Georgia Leadership, and is on the Supervisory Board for Georgia Leadership. He has been enrolled in Georgia Trend Magazine's "40 under 40" and Fulton County Daily Report "Lawyers on the Rise."
In 2013, Hodges was honored by the State Bar of Georgia's Committee for Promoting Inclusion in Professions with a Commitment for Equality Award. Hodges was chosen for honor because his contribution to diversity advancement, including his previous service as District Prosecutor for the Dougherty Justice Session, employed him as assistant head of the African American prosecutor who subsequently became his successor.For three of his tenure, Hodges had one of the most proportionally diverse offices in this state and, in many instances, helped his minority assistant switch to a federal prosecutor or a secure position in private practice.As a county attorney, he retained an internship program with Albany State University, a black university of Georgia history. "
In 2013, Hodges was chosen by Georgia lawyers to serve on the State Bar of Georgia Executive Committee. Hodges currently serves on the Board of Governors for the State Bar of Georgia, and several committees, including the Advisory Committee on Legislation.
Ken Hodges currently serves as Secretary and serves as Supervisory Board for the Urban League of Atlanta.
In August 2009, Candidate Hodges received the support of Andrew Young, former Mayor of Atlanta and United States ambassador to the United Nations under President Jimmy Carter. Young praised Hodges for "his commitment to equality of rights and fair application of justice during his tenure at Albany."
Hodges has also received support from former Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, the first African American judge in the United States, Mark Taylor, former Georgian lieutenant governor, and Sam Nunn, a former US senator from Georgia.
In January 2011, Hodges joined the Atlanta law firm, Rafuse Hill & amp; Hodges, LLP as partner in the litigation division. Rafuse Hill & amp; Hodges has national litigation practices that focus on jobs, civil rights, product liability, and commercial disputes.
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Controversial action
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As district attorney, he requested a doctor's phone record search, against a doctor - who questioned a particular billing practice at a local hospital, Phoebe Putney. Hodges was personally sued, successfully, at the same District Court in Albany, but because the case ultimately violated "absolute immunity for grand prosecutors", the decision of the District Court went to SCOTUS which was later canceled.
Griffin Stocks III, James Holloway and Garden problems
In the ongoing acts of Dougherty County Superior Court (where Hodges is DA) (16-cv-1125), the plaintiff claims that Hodges was unlawfully appointed as a recipient, and also acted improperly because he previously served as a lawyer who facilitated the sale of the real estate concerned. Furthermore James B. Holloway appealed against Hodges (A18A0867) at the same Court where Hodges won the election to replace the Judge. How the Georgian Judiciary Commission will allow a colleague who is a potential defendant remains to be seen.
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