The Hon. Deborah A. Edwards (Ret.) served as a judge for the Houston County Juvenile Court in Georgia. Edwards was appointed to the bench in 1996. She retired on August 31, 2021.
Prior to her appointment, Edwards represented children and parents in juvenile court. She worked as an attorney for the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services, handling cases for the Attorney General’s Office and the Department of Family and Children Services in Juvenile Court.
Edwards earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Mercer University (1973) and a master’s degree in special education and teaching from Georgia State University (1976). She spent the next several years teaching before completing a J.D. at the University of Georgia School of Law in 1982.
A resident of Houston County for more than three decades, Edwards was born in Tampa, Florida, where her father served with the United States Air Force.
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