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PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LAW OFFICE OF ROBIN FRAZER CLARK
ATLANTA, GA
JANUARY 17, 2017
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Judge Ed Carriere: The Embodiment of Professionalism
The last two Fridays I have spent speaking at Continuing Legal Education Seminars sponsored by the Institute of Continuing Education. My topic: Ethics and Professionalism. In preparing for both presentations, I couldn’t help but think about a dear departed friend who was the embodiment of Ethics and Professionalism, Judge Ed Carriere. I recall as one of the highest honors of my year serving as President of the State Bar of Georgia the day I accompanied Chief Justice Carol Hunstein to Judge Carriere’s home and with his wife, Jane, present, Chief Justice Hunstein published the resolution below. It gave me goose bumps then and it does now in the remembering of it. I wish everyone could have known Judge Carriere. Certainly, everyone who did was changed for the better. I share with you the Joint Resolution honoring Judge Carriere. 
The Supreme Court of Georgia
Whereas: The Honorable Edward E. Carriere, Jr. has rendered more than four decades of service to the justice system and the legal profession in the State of Georgia; and
Whereas: Judge Carriere earned his law degree at Loyola University in California and was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1971; and
Vote in Georgia Tomorrow, July 31
Friends: Tomorrow, we citizens of Georgia, get the opportunity to exercise one of our sacred rights: the right to vote. I urge each of you to do so.
Other than serving on a jury, voting may be the single most important thing you do as a citizen. During my personal injury trials I often tell a jury that a vote on a jury is even more powerful than a vote in an election because as a jury member, your vote is one of twelve, and in an election, your vote is one of thousands. But elections have consequences, and as responsible citizens we Georgians must vote our consciences to try to shape the consequences rather than simply complain afterwards.
The United States Constitution, in Article VI, section 3, stipulates that “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The Constitution, however, leaves the determination of voting qualifications to the individual states. Over time, the federal role in elections has increased through amendments to the Constitution and enacted legislation, such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965.[1] At least four of the fifteen post-Civil War constitutional amendments were ratified specifically to extend voting rights to different groups of citizens. These extensions state that voting rights cannot be denied or abridged based on the following:
Calling All Georgians: Be An Organ Donor!
Organ donation is so important. Many Georgians are waiting right now for a life-saving organ. I encourage folks to sign donor permission forms and tell their relatives that if they are killed or die unexpectedly, they want any usable organs donated. You must be clear about your wishes regarding all possible organs, including skin and tendons or ligaments, suitable for donation. I love the bumper sticker that says: “Be An Organ Donor: Heaven Knows We Need Them Down Here.” So true! There is an alarming shortage of donated organs in Georgia and in the United States. Over half of the 100,000 Americans on the national transplant waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate 20,000 transplantable organs every year.
Below is a story about a little boy who desperately needs a new kidney. I share this story with you with the hope that maybe someone out there will read this and respond or, at the very least, become an organ donor by signing his or her driver’s license.
Finding A Kidney For Giovanni
