February Networking Luncheon

Joyette Holmes

Vice Chair of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles

Joyette Holmes, ESQ is a trusted and resilient public servant who has served the Cobb County community faithfully as an attorney, judge, and catalyst for criminal justice reform. Throughout Holmes’ legal career she has been most notably known for her uncompromising excellence in her representation of the court system no matter what position she served in. Her many accolades speak to her character, integrity, and high ethical standards – all qualities that led to her rise within the legal profession as a trailblazer. Joyette Holmes, ESQ would become the first African American and woman to serve as Chief magistrate judge and district attorney in Cobb County.

Throughout Joyette Holmes, ESQ’s career she has been blessed to be honored by her peers and her community. She was named the 2019 Cobb County Citizen of the Year by the Marietta Daily Journal. The Cobb NAACP and the Cobb Ministerial Alliance have both honored her with awards named for United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She has received a Community Service Award named for one of her mentors, retired Georgia Supreme Court Justice Robert Benham and honored with the Living Legacy Award by the Kennesaw Teen Center. She also made Cobb Life Magazine’s “20 Rising Stars under 40”.

Holmes is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and serves in Rho Zeta Omega – the Cobb County Graduate Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She also serves on the boards of the Cobb Chamber of Commerce, Cobb Community Foundation, Must Ministries, and the Davis Direction Foundation. She is a Life Member of the Cobb County NAACP Chapter. She also has two teenage daughters that she shares with her husband, Smyrna native Bridges Holmes.