Marietta lawyers and legal support staff crowded into Cobb County Superior Court’s oversized ceremonial courtroom Thursday to pay tribute to the most senior member of their bench, Judge Dorothy Robinson, who is retiring at the end of the year.

The Cobb County Bar Association commissioned a portrait of the judge to hang in the ceremonial courtroom and planned the event — which happened to be Robinson’s 75th birthday —to unveil the work by local artist Robert Meredith. The Cobb County Board of Commissioners, the Georgia House of Representatives and the Supreme Court of Georgia sent resolutions honoring the state’s first woman judge and her 40 years of service and had members there to read them before a standing-room-only crowd that filled the aisle and the hallway outside.

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