Chatham County Superior Court Judge Louisa Abbot will become president of the Council of Superior Court Judges beginning May 1.
Her one-year term will be joined by president-elect Mary Staley of Marietta in the Cobb Judicial Circuit, and Judge Brenda S. Weaver of Jasper in the Appalachian Judicial Circuit as secretary-treasurer.
Abbot was appointed to the Superior Court bench in October 2000 and has been re-elected three times since. She graduated from Augusta State University, magna cum laude,.in 1979 and from the University of Georgia law school, summa cum laude, in 1982.
She previously was legal assistant to then-chief Superior Court Judge Perry Brannen Jr., is a past president of the Savannah Bar Associatio and past president of the Georgia Bar Foundation.