While judges are elected officials and leaders of the courts they serve in, even they aren’t exempt from jury service.

“It’s always interesting to get called to be a juror in a courthouse that you work in,” former DeKalb County State Court Judge Dax Lopez, now of DelCampo Grayson Lopez, said. “But I always appreciated the opportunity to see what jurors have to go through because that helps me [as a judge].”