VIDEOCONFERENCE INSTRUCTIONS FOR HEARINGS

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Scheduling Cases

• Should you need assistance regarding a court date, please contact Crystal Scott, Case Manager, by email  cscott@douglascountyga.gov. 
• Priority is given to criminal cases in which the defendant remains incarcerated without bond. 

• Anyone who has a criminal case pending and who is unable to afford to hire an attorney should contact the Douglas County Public Defender’s Office as soon as possible. 
• All civil cases that are ready for trial are added to the "Ready (Short) List" and will be on the civil jury calendar.
• All appeals involving county ad valorem taxes are added to the next civil jury trial list because of state law requirements for the processing of those cases. Those requirements take priority over the time limits for civil discovery.
• All civil cases in which answers are filed are referred to mediation through the 7th Judicial Administrative District 770-387-5480. The parties are encouraged to use this program to resolve their cases efficiently and oftentimes with less expense.

JUDGE ADAMS' BIOGRAPHY

Chief Judge Cynthia C. Adams has been serving as a Superior Court judge since 2017. She is both the first female and the first African American to serve as a judge in Douglas County on the state or superior court level.  She was originally appointed in 2017 and has been re-elected twice to continue serving. In January 2025, Judge Adams once again made history when she was sworn in as the Chief Judge of the Douglas County Judicial Circuit.  More than 150 years after its founding in 1870, Douglas County celebrates its first female and its first African American Chief Judge of the Superior Court. 

Judge Adams likes to say that her legal career started as a teenager in 1993 when she was selected as an intern in the first class of the Atlanta Bar Association’s Summer Law Internship Program for high school students.  Judge Adams now serves as a mentor and an intern host in the program.  

 Prior to being on the bench, she worked as a District Attorney in the special victims Crimes Against Children Unit where her commitment to fairness and justice earned her the distinction of Trial Attorney of the Year. Judge Adams later served as Judge Pro Tempore in the Douglas County Juvenile Court, and as a solo practitioner at the Law Office of Cynthia C. Adams in Douglasville, Georgia.  

Judge Adams has a passion for children – not just her own, but all children. Through her previous work in the Crimes Against Children unit and her work in the juvenile courts, she had the opportunity to help at-risk children.  She is particularly proud of creating a reading library for the children involved in the Douglas County Juvenile court.  Growing up she felt that every piece of literature she read changed her in some way and added texture to how she viewed the world.  Her hope for the book room is that it will light a spark of curiosity in the children, creating a love for books and reading, and ultimately changing their trajectory in life. 

In addition to serving as the court’s chief judge, Cynthia also manages her regular court docket, runs the Douglas County Mental Health Court, and established the county’s Parental Accountability Court. Mental Health Court is a judicially supervised, treatment-based program for those individuals with a documented mental health diagnosis. The goal is to improve mental health, promote self-sufficiency, reduce recidivism, and offer cost effective alternatives to incarceration and hospitalization. The Parental Accountability Court is a joint effort of the Georgia Department of Human Services Division of Child Support Services and Superior Court Judges to offer an alternative to incarceration and to help chronic non-payers of child support make regular payments. 

 When she is not on the bench, Cynthia serves her community in several areas including as a 2017 graduate of Leadership Douglas, a member of the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers, Gate City Bar Association, Douglas County Bar Association, Douglas County Chamber of Commerce, Douglas County Rotary, the Junior League of Douglas County, and the Sigma Omega Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.  She also serves on the Judicial Council of Georgia Access to Justice Committee, Council of Accountability Court Judges Executive Committee, and chairs the Council of Accountability Court Judges Special Treatment Committee.  She previously served on the Boards of the Douglas County Cultural Arts Council and the Good Samaritan Center in Douglas County. 

Judge Adams is the youngest of her siblings. She came to the United States at the age of 10 when her parents moved from the Bahamas to the United States.  She is a graduate of Oakwood College (now Oakwood University) and the University of Georgia School of Law.  She is a member of the Atlanta Berean Seventh-day Adventist Church, and is married to her college sweetheart and best friend, Dwayne Adams. Dwayne is a partner at an Atlanta law firm.  They have two children, Isabel (17 years old) and Alexander (12 years old).

She lives her life by the saying: Never put off for tomorrow what you can do today,” and by one of her favorite passages, Philippians 4:13:  “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”