Petition for Divorce| Judge Marvin S. Arrington, Sr. |
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404-730-6937: Fax Number 404-730-6907: Judicial Assistant Marvin S. Arrington, Sr. was appointed Judge to the Fulton County Superior Court by Governor Roy Barnes in January 2002. Prior to his appointment as Judge, Mr. Arrington was senior partner at the law firm of Arrington & Hollowell. His areas of concentration were civil litigation, white-collar crime, administrative law, and corporate representation. He has been voted “One of Atlanta’s Top 25 Lawyers” by Atlanta Magazine and is recognized as being “Among the 100 Most Influential People in Georgia” by Georgia Trend Magazine. He received the Silverback Award recognizing his good works with the Atlanta Zoo. Mr. Arrington also received the Georgia Bar Association’s highest community service award, “The Chief Justice Robert Benham Award for Community Service.” Judge Arrington is an Emory University Law School Alumnus and a graduate of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. As a member of the Society of International Business Fellows, he attended the London School of Business in 1981. Judge Arrington served as President of the Atlanta City Council, having been a member of the Council for over twenty years. He also has served as a member of the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium Authority and was its Chairman for eleven years, having been appointed by Mayor Maynard Jackson and later re-appointed by Mayor Andrew Young. Judge Arrington has served as a Special Assistant to the President of the National Bar Association and formerly headed that Association's legal section. He was also appointed by the President of the American Bar Association to serve on the Association's Advisory Committee of the Special Committee on Election Law and Voter Participation. Judge Arrington has also served the State Bar of Georgia as Chairman of the Correctional Facilities and Service Committee. Judge Arrington has served as a member of the boards of the Lake Lanier Islands Development Authority, the Metropolitan Atlanta Olympic Authority, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Advisory Board of the World Trade Club of Atlanta, the Commerce Club, the Atlanta Business League, the Atlanta Lawyers Club, and the Board of Governors of the Atlanta City Club. Judge Arrington has served on the Board of Trustees of The Lovett School and Clark Atlanta University. He is presently a member of the Board of Trustees of Emory University. Judge Arrington has received numerous awards and commendations in recognition of his many accomplishments within the legal profession and for his commitment to community service. Emory University awarded Judge Arrington the "Emory Medal" in 1988 and the "Distinguished Alumnus Award" in 1989. Judge Arrington's professional affiliations include memberships in the State Bar of Georgia, the National Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Atlanta Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, the Gate City Bar Association and the Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. • Georgia Bar Association’s “Chief Justice Robert Benham Award for Community Service”
• With the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued the Georgia Bar in 1970 to highlight the plight of the many African Americans who had tried unsuccessfully to pass the State Bar exam. Although the suit was lost, the number of African Americans passing the Bar began to rise immediately following the action. • Served as head of litigation for National Bar Association and as a Special Assistant to its President. • Served on the American Bar Association’s Election Reform and Voter Participation Advisory Committee. • Along with Charles Lester, Arrington developed the Georgia State Bar’s Diversity Program which encouraged the state’s corporations to do business with African American-owned firms. • Prompted Emory University Law School, his alma mater, to contribute $1 million to establish the Donald L. Hollowell Chair in Civil Rights. • Served as the defense counsel in U.S. v Ealy which established a precedent for pre-trial discovery in criminal cases in the Northern District of Georgia. • Won acquittal after seven days for Arthur Langford Jr. in the celebrated U.S. v. Arthur Langford Jr. case.
• Became the youngest African American elected to the Atlanta Board of Alderman in 1969. He was re-elected to the newly renamed Atlanta City Council in 1974, serving as a council member until 1980 when he was elected to complete the unexpired term of Carl Ware as Council President. He subsequently won four landslide victories as City Council President, a position he held until 1996. • As one of his first acts in public office, introduced legislation to take down signs designating “White” and “Colored” water fountains in Atlanta’s City Hall and on water buckets on the City’s public works trucks. • Led the city’s administration to reassign lockers at the city’s waterworks without regard to gender or race. • Originated a resolution to appoint more women to high-ranking positions in City government and appointed women to head six of the Council’s nine standing committees. • Introduced legislation supporting federal prohibitions against housing discrimination and pushed for aggressive enforcement of state and federal housing laws. • Brought together Atlanta mortgage lenders to establish the Fair Lending Practices Action Committee to help fight discriminatory mortgage loan practices. • Forced the postponement of construction on the Omni Arena until its builders and unions agreed to initiate a program to train African Americans in the construction trades. • Engineered a partnership called “Project Hope” with Georgia Pacific to build more than 50 affordable houses in the Vine City neighborhood. • Led a move to acquire a row of blighted and abandoned properties on Beckwith Street and renovated them into more upscale homes for Atlanta University Center faculty, now called “Faculty Row.” • Led the move to get Muhammad Ali back into the ring after his boxing license was suspended for refusing to be drafted into the U.S. Armed Forces for service in Vietnam. • Arranged the payment of $25,000 to erect Hank Aaron’s statue at the new Atlanta Stadium and helped create the Hank Aaron Rookie League for inner city youth. • Prompted Bell South (then Southern Bell) to create it perennial “Black Calendar,” which initially recognized Negro League baseball players, and initiated efforts to have them inducted into the National Baseball League’s Hall of Fame. • Instituted the Reading Patrol Program through which Atlanta police officers volunteered to read to students in Atlanta’s elementary and middle schools. • Led talks that resulted in the merger of Clark College and Atlanta University. • Prompted Aetna Insurance Company to contribute $250,000 to initiate the Saturday Academy Program through which adults and children in neighboring public housing projects could be tutored and attend classes at Clark Atlanta University. • Raised more than $1 million in ten years for Clark Atlanta University. • Founded the L.S. Epps Scholarship Program to benefit Clark Atlanta’s athletic program. • Helped to establish the Black Studies program at Emory University and raised more that $200,000 for the school’s athletics program. • Spearheaded a movement to save the Atlanta Zoo and catapult it to the world class zoo it has become. • Initiated Adopt-A-School programs among Atlanta’s corporate community and Atlanta’s public schools. (Arrington & Hollowell adopted Grove Park Elementary School.) • Served as the first chairman of Outreach Atlanta, an organization that promotes responsible and realistic attitudes about AIDS among minorities, especially inner city youth. • Donated more than $100,000 from campaign funds to scholarships and charitable organizations. |
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