The Logan E. Bleckley Distin-
guished Service Award is bestowed
by the Litigation Section at the an-
nual Bench and Bar Reception to
recognize and honor one of the
judges or justices of the courts
in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
The award is named after Logan
E. Bleckley, Associate Justice from
1875 to 1879 and the Chief Justice of
the Georgia Supreme Court from
1887 to 1894,
and is designed
to recognize a
judge with years
of devoted pub-
lic service as a
member of the
judiciary.
This year, the
Litigation Sec-
tion was hon-
ored to present
the Logan E.
Bleckley award
to Georgia Su-
preme Court
Justice Caro l
W. Hunstein.
The award is
well deserved.
sion on Gender Bias in the Judicial
System, which issued its report to
the Supreme Court in 1991. She
was the district director of the Na-
tional Association of Women Judges
(NAWJ) and chaired the local host
committee for the NAWJ 1995 An-
nual Conference, which was held
in Atlanta.
Justice Hunstein has served as the
Justice Hunstein is a member of the
American Bar Association’s Public
Perceptions Committee, the Bleck-
ley Inn of Court, and has served
as a liaison to the Chief Justice’s
Commission on Professionalism.
She is the recipient of more awards
than can be listed, has served the
community and the profession in
many additional ways, and all while
L-R: Atlanta Bar Executive Director Terri Bryant, Atlanta Bar Foundation Member at Large Robert
G. Wellon, Atlanta Bar Vice President/President Elect Margaret H. Vath, Atlanta Bar Past President
Harold E. Franklin, Jr., Atlanta Bar Past President Wade H. Watson III
Justice Hunstein won election to the
Superior Court Bench of DeKalb
County in 1984. As a superior court
judge, she was active at the county,
state, and national level including
serving as the chair of many com-
mittees and task forces. Justice
Hunstein was later appointed to
the Georgia Supreme Court in No-
vember 1992 by then Governor Zell
Miller. She was only the second
woman to hold a permanent posi-
tion on the Georgia Supreme Court.
Justice Hunstein was appointed as
the Chair of the Georgia Commis-
President of the Council of Superior
Court Judges, chaired the Georgia
Commission on Access and Fair-
ness, chaired the 1993, 1998, and
2001 State Commissions on Child
Support Guidelines, served on
the Advisory Board of the Justice
Center of Atlanta and the Georgia
Campaign for Adolescent Preg-
nancy Prevention. She is a former
Rosalynn Carter Honorary Fellow
in Public Policy at Emory University
Institute of Women’s Studies and
has served as an adjunct professor
at Emory University School of Law.
raising a family and otherwise hav-
ing interests outside of the legal
profession. Needless to say, very
deserving indeed.
To help us honor her longtime
friend, current American Bar As-
sociation (the “other” ABA) Presi-
dent, Linda Klein, was present and
provided the introduction of Justice
Hunstein. It was so important to
Linda Klein to be with us that eve-
ning, and to help celebrate Justice
Hunstein, that Linda Klein actually
rearranged not only her schedule
to be there, but the schedule of a
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