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Main Page Contact Barry Ostrow, 912.927.5223 For Immediate Release AASU Symposium Studies Supreme Court, ConstitutionSavannah, GA-April 5, 2006-A federal judge will be among the guest speakers when a political science class at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) hosts a symposium debating the topic "Should the Supreme Court Be the Final Interpreter of the Constitution?" The symposium, which is free and open to the public, will be held at noon on Wednesday, April 12, in Ashmore Hall Auditorium on the AASU campus. The Hon. William T. Moore, Jr., chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, will be among the speakers. Other members of the speakers panel include Lisa Godbey Wood, the U.S. attorney for this district, and students from AASU. Moore was sworn in as a federal judge in 1994. He is a graduate of Georgia Military College, and went on to receive his law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1964 and a Master's of Law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2001. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a partner in the Savannah law firm of Oliver Maner & Gray, where he specialized in federal criminal defense and federal and state trial practice. Wood was appointed to her federal position in 2004. She is a 1990 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law. After a year as a law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge Anthony A. Alaimo, she joined the Brunswick law firm of Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford and Martin and made partner four years later. The symposium, which will include time for questions from the audience, is a project of John Kearnes' political science course on the American Supreme Court. Students who will be on the panel include Megan Herbert, Adam Morrison, Brian Dotson, and Stephen Lambeth. |
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