Judge Glenda Hatchett: A champion of justice and advocate for change

She is vivacious. She is tenacious. Plus, she possesses a good heart. The Honorable Judge Glenda A. Hatchett has served in the highest of boards and presided over one of America’s largest juvenile judicial circuits. However, at her core, Hatchett always stands on business, as the kids would say. She never backs down from any challenge thrown her direction.& She weaves passion and purpose into every step she takes. Hatchett discussed her experiences growing up in Atlanta during the Civil Rights Movement. For example, Hatchett recounted a childhood memory of tasting water from a white water fountain. Hatchett was five years old and wanted to know if the ‘Whites Only’ water fountain tastes differently.& “And people looked at me, but I learned words very early on,” Hatchett explains.& “I could obviously spell my name. I could read colored, and I could read white, right? And so I was just curious, and so there were these little steps on the side of the water fountain to get up to the white water fountain. Of course, there was a color fountain.& And with adult eyes, I look back on that, and I realized that she was afraid for my life. I could...