2/28/2012 - Justice Kelli Wise to Visit Judson College March 6

Alabama Supreme Court Justice Kelli Wise will speak at Judson College chapel on March 6.

Wise is one of six women to have served on the Alabama Supreme Court. She was elected to the court in 2010, when she received the highest vote of any contested statewide candidate.

A graduate of Prattville High School, Wise received a B.S. in biology with a minor in nursing from Auburn University in 1985 and a Juris Doctorate from Jones School of Law in 1994. She earned a Master of Public Administration from Auburn University Montgomery in 2000 and was named the 2005 Outstanding Graduate by the AUM Department of Political Science and Public Administration.

Recently Justice Wise was named as one of AUM's "Top 40 in 40" during the university's 40th Anniversary Celebration.

Committed to helping at-risk children, Justice Wise was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley to serve on the Alabama Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2003 and re-appointed in 2006. She currently serves on the Alabama Law Institute Criminal Code committee tasked with helping to re-write the Alabama Criminal Code and the Advisory Committee on Criminal Procedure.

Justice Wise is involved in several professional organizations including the Alabama State Bar Association, the Alabama Wildlife Federation, the Montgomery Symphony League and the Capital City Republican Women. In addition she is active in the Montgomery Junior League and serves on the board of directors for the Family Sunshine Center, Distinguished Young Women of Alabama and Max Credit Union.

Judge Wise and her husband Arthur Ray, a former Montgomery County District Court judge, are parents of Hanah-Mathis, a fifth grader at St. James School. They are members of St. James United Methodist Church.

The event will be in the Ramsay-McCrummen Chapel in Jewett Hall at 11 a.m.

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