Fatima A. El-Amin at a glance
- Current role
- Judge
- Current assignment
- DeKalb County Juvenile Court
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia · State
- Judicial service
- Active
Fatima A. El-Amin
Judge · DeKalb County Juvenile Court
Biography
Professional career
- Native of Atlanta, Georgia, and has held the role of a full Juvenile Court Judge since 2014, later becoming Chief Judge in 2023
- 2014–present: Full Juvenile Court Judge in DeKalb County, presiding over dependency, delinquent, and traffic cases
- Chief Judge: Appointed by the Superior Court Judges of DeKalb County as Chief Judge of the DeKalb County Juvenile Court effective January 1, 2023
- Official site: DeKalb Juvenile Court – Judge Fatima A. El-Amin
- Before joining the judiciary, Judge El-Amin served as an Assistant District Attorney
Education
- Emory University School of Law — J.D. (2000)
- Judge El-Amin attended W. D. Mohammed High School in DeKalb County and graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a dual B.A. in Psychology and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
Additional information
- handling adult and juvenile cases, and as an appellate attorney before the Georgia Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
- The proud mother of one son
- She also practiced in private legal services and in public interest law at the DeKalb County Child Advocacy Center
- The founder and program coordinator of “Crowned”, an intensive seminar for girls and women focused on positive self-image.
- She is a graduate of Leadership Georgia and Leadership DeKalb, and a member of the Gate City Bar Association, DeKalb Bar Association, Council for Juvenile Court Judges, DeKalb Lawyers Association, and Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys
- She is a recipient of the NAACP DeKalb Thurgood Marshall Award, the DeKalb County Schools Living Legend Award, and the Islamic Speakers Bureau 100 Influential Georgia Muslims Award.
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Sources
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Biography sources checked July 26, 2026.
Supreme Court of Georgia, court orders amending Uniform Trial Court Rules
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