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Greg Douds (Cherokee County Magistrate Court, Georgia, candidate 2024)
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Greg Douds (Republican Party) ran for election for judge of the Cherokee County Magistrate Court in Georgia. He was on the ballot in the Republican primary on May 21, 2024.
Douds completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Greg Douds provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on April 24, 2024:
- Birth date: June 29, 1963
- Birth place: Charleston, West Virginia
- High school: Friendly Senior High School, Friendly, MD
- Bachelor's: University of Maryland at College Park, 1983
- J.D.: Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, 1995
- Gender: Male
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Profession: Judge
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Reliable * Efficient * Proven
- Campaign website
Elections
General election
General election for Cherokee County Magistrate Court
Jack Goodwin III ran in the general election for Cherokee County Magistrate Court on November 5, 2024.
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Cherokee County Magistrate Court
Greg Douds and Jack Goodwin III ran in the Republican primary for Cherokee County Magistrate Court on May 21, 2024.
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Election results
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Douds in this election.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Greg Douds completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Douds' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I moved to the Hickory Flat area in 2001 with my wife of 38 years, our son, and my wife’s parents, so her parents could live near both their daughters and live their retirement years in their own home with us as their caretakers.
I’m a trial and appellate lawyer with 28 years of experience, and a CPA with 40 years of accounting and business experience.
My peers rely on me as one of six or seven judges who daily help others on our state-wide judges’ blog with analyzing their tough legal issues. I’m a major contributor to the bench book they rely on every day; and I served on the state-wide subcommittee that modernized the pandemic benchbook courts relied on to navigate the COVID pandemic.
I’ve been using zero-based budgets from the beginning, and I’ve returned budget surpluses every year.
I’ve created systems to eliminate labor-wasting wage garnishment errors; to reduce labor hours and errors in abandoned vehicle cases; and to greatly improve our electronic warrant system that saves more than one million dollars every year.
It is my goal to keep the Cherokee County Magistrate Court a model of efficiency for other courts to emulate.- RELIABLE: I am committed to expert stewardship of your taxpayer dollars. I budget carefully, and I return surpluses to the taxpayers. I think about budget consequences with every significant decision I make.
- EFFICIENT: I continually seek ways to improve business workflows using existing tools, in order to handle more cases without costing more money. For example, I have designed semi-automated Excel worksheets to let support staff enter wage garnishment data. That data is initially analyzed automatically to highlight errors and inconsistencies, significantly reducing man-hours of labor. This example has reduced error investigation from several hours per week to only a few minutes per month.
- PROVEN: I’ve been the full-time Chief Associate Magistrate for more than 15 years. I have managed every aspect of the Court’s business, from hearing thousands of civil trials and criminal hearings, to budgeting, payroll, personnel, logistics, and all things that affect the Court’s day-to-day operation.
The Magistrate Court is a court of law, not a court of equity. It is not the Chief Magistrate’s business, and not legitimately within his or her judicial discretion, to make adjustments or concessions in particular cases, or in general classes of cases, that don’t conform to existing statutory and common law.
I have designed a specialized accounting system to track judicial workloads unique to this office; I've used that, plus historical and projected population and household data to predict caseloads increases for future planning; and I've heard every imaginable kind of case brought to the Cherokee County Magistrate over more than 15 years.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ [Email from Georgia Secretary of State Election office, "Candidate list," March 12, 2024]
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