The Hon. Linda Y. Bratton-Haynes is a judge for the DeKalb County Juvenile Court in Georgia. She was appointed to the bench by the Superior Court Judges of DeKalb County in 1998.
Over the course of her judicial career, Bratton-Haynes served as a judge pro tem (1998 to 2002) and an associate judge (2002 to present) for the DeKalb County Juvenile Court. She developed the Truancy Awareness Prevention Program and helped establish the Juvenile Drug Court in DeKalb County.
Bratton-Haynes earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 1980. She then completed a J.D. at Georgia State University College of Law in 1986.
After graduating from law school, Bratton-Haynes began her legal career as a law clerk for the Hon. Robert Benham of the Georgia Court of Appeals. She then entered into private practice, joining Franklin, Moran & Boyle in 1988. During her tenure there, she developed the firm’s bankruptcy division. Bratton-Haynes bought out a section of the law firm two years later and opened her own private practice, where she specialized in bankruptcy, business, civil, and criminal law matters.
Her memberships have included the Georgia Council of Juvenile Court Judges, the National Council of Family and Juvenile Court Judges, the DeKalb Lawyers Association, the DeKalb Bar Association, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and Leadership DeKalb. She has also served as vice president of A Dancer’s Heart, Inc.
She is a recipient of the Tupac Shukar Foundation’s Women in Progress Award and the Atlanta Center for Healing’s Trailblazer Award.
Bratton-Haynes was born in Upland, California.