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HON. JERRY J. BOWLES is a Circuit Judge in Jefferson County where he presides in the Family Court. Judge Bowles has been active at the local, state and national level regarding issues of family violence. He has lectured extensively on domestic violence issues for such groups as the Kentucky Bar Association and the Louisville Bar Association. Judge Bowles is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. HON. DONNA L. DELAHANTY was elected in 2006 to the Jefferson Circuit Family Court to an eight year term. Judge Delahanty earned her B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky and her J.D. degree from the University of Louisville Law School. Prior to her position with the Jefferson Circuit Family Court, Judge Delahanty has been a law clerk for Kentucky Supreme Court Judge Charles Leibson, and chief judges Thomas Ballantine Jr. and Ronald Meredith. She has also been an assistant general counsel for the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, counsel for the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and an attorney in private practice in the area of family law. HON. PATRICIA WALKER FITZGERALD has been a Circuit/Family Court Judge since 1995 and is currently Chief Judge for the Family Division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, serving her second term in this position. Judge FitzGerald is a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, a faculty member for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) Judicial Colleges, a mentor of the NCJFCJ Institute for Faculty Excellence and on the advisory board of the Kentucky Circuit Judges' Judicial Education Academy. HON. STEPHEN M. GEORGE received his B.A. degree from the University of Louisville and his J.D. degree from the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. He was in private practice from 1977 to 2000, concentrating in family law. Judge George has presided in Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division IX since October 2000. He served as Chief Judge of Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Divisions, from January 2004 through December 2007. He has frequently presented to judges, domestic relations commissioners and attorneys on family law topics. He contributed to the 2006 Kentucky Domestic Relations manual. Professional associations include the Kentucky and Louisville bar associations, and the National Council for Juvenile and Family Court Judges. HON. M. BRENT HALL is a Hardin Circuit Court Judge for the Family Court, Division IV. He earned his B.A. degree from Baylor University and his J.D. degree from the University of Louisville Law School. Before coming to the bench in 2007, Judge Hall had considerable experience through the Hardin County Attorney's Office as one of two attorneys who routinely prosecuted the dependency, neglect and abuse dockets, educational neglect/truancy docket and emergency cases within family court. TARA HAGERTY is a 1993 graduate of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. During her years of practice, she has served as an assistant Jefferson county public defender, Juvenile Division; an assistant corporation counsel for the District of Columbia; a staff member for the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee; as an assistant Jefferson County attorney, Family Court Division; and as counsel for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. Ms. Hagerty also had a private practice with Pregliasco Straw-Boone, concentrating in divorce, child custody and representation of parents in dependency, neglect and abuse cases in Jefferson Circuit Family Court. Ms. Hagerty has served as chair of the Louisville Bar Association Family Section. Currently, she is the chief deputy for Family and Juvenile Court for David L. Nicholson, Jefferson County circuit court clerk. HON. PAULA F. SHERLOCK serves in the Jefferson Family Court, Division X. She presides over cases involving family and domestic relations, including divorce, custody, abuse and neglect of children, paternity, child support, adoptions, juvenile status offenses and domestic violence cases. Judge Sherlock is a graduate of Washington & Lee Law School in Lexington, Virginia. Prior to attending law school, she earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Northern Colorado, a master's degree in counseling from Campbell University in North Carolina and completed course work for a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia. HON. ELISE GIVHAN SPAINHOUR has been elected as Bullitt County, Kentucky's first family court judge. Judge Spainhour has practiced law in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, since 1977, and most of her career has been spent arguing and defending family-related matters. For six years, she was an assistant county attorney, where she prosecuted juvenile court cases, child support cases and paternity cases. She is also a former city attorney for Hillview and Hunter's Hollow. She took the bench in 2007. MODERATOR - LOUIS I. WATERMAN is a former judge of Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division IV, and a leading family law attorney in Kentucky. He is a graduate of the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville (1986), a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Attorneys and is Certified in Family Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Waterman is currently the president of the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He is a graduate of Leadership Louisville (1990), Bingham Fellows III (1994), Bingham Fellows 2002 and a participant of Harvard Business School's Governing for Non-profit Excellence, Executive Education Program (2002). Mr. Waterman has been recognized for his commitment to Louisville by being recognized as one of the Business First's 40 Under 40 (1997), the recipient of the Louisville Bar Association's Distinguished Service Award (2002), the Legal Aide Society's Outstanding Volunteer Lawyer (2000), the Louisville Bar Association's Outstanding Committee of the Year (Public Service 1998), and the 2003 Excellence in Community Leadership Award.
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