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South Fulton, an Atlanta suburb and one of Georgia’s newest cities, has the distinction of being perhaps the first city in the nation to have its criminal justice system led entirely by black women: 

• Chief Judge Tiffany Carter Sellers
• interim Police Chief Sheila Rogers
• solicitor LaDawn “LBJ” Jones
• public defender Viveca Famber Powell
• court administrator Lakesiya Cofield
• chief court clerk Ramona Howard
• court clerk Tiffany Kinslow
• court clerk Kerry Stephens

Many will hail this group as a definitive sign of progress in the tortured relationship between the justice system and black America. But does having a judicial system led entirely by black women automatically guarantee a greater degree of justice for residents of this city of 95,000 people?