About Us
The Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office represents the people of the State of Georgia as the top prosecutor for state crimes in the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit including Dade, Catoosa, Chattooga and Walker counties.
The mission of the office is to seek justice for the citizens of Georgia with courage, integrity, and professionalism.
The District Attorney’s Office is responsible for seeking justice in felony cases in Catoosa, Chattooga, and Walker Counties, as well as felony and misdemeanor cases in Dade County. Misdemeanors in Catoosa, Chattooga, and Walker Counties are prosecuted by three separate prosecuting agencies, the Solicitor Generals, in the state courts of those three counties. We also seek justice in all criminal offenses in the Juvenile Courts of the Judicial Circuit.
Our office is comprised of highly skilled professionals who live in the counties we represent and who are passionate about doing what’s right and seeking justice for the people we serve. The office employs 16 attorneys and 22 support and non-attorney staff members. We handle approximately 4,750 felonies and 250 misdemeanors each year.
We are committed to conducting ourselves within a strict value system that focuses on honesty, integrity, respect, courage, fairness, professionalism and humility.
The work we do is more than prosecuting people who commit crimes. We are committed to
holding the right people accountable for violating the law without fear or favor in an ethical, equitable, and independent manner. We are committed to providing advocacy, support and resources to victims, witnesses and their families. We strive to act at all times with compassion for witnesses, victims and defendants. We take seriously our obligation to serve as leaders within the criminal justice system and to foster professionalism and cooperation among all constituents including the courts, law enforcement agencies, victims, witnesses, social service agencies, and the community.
We are passionate about protecting conviction integrity, ensuring cases move quickly and justly through the criminal process, and efficiently and effectively leveraging alternative sentencing programs when appropriate.
Finally, we believe it is our duty to educate and engage the community through volunteer work and greater access to information about the functions of our office and criminal justice system.
