The posted information reflects the most commonly requested public documents filed with the Judicial Qualifications Commission (JQC) Hearing Panel or the Supreme Court as available pursuant to JQC Rule 11, but does not necessarily include all filings within a matter such as routine Hearing Panel case management or procedural orders, nor filings that are required by JQC Rule 11 to be kept confidential. The posted information also includes substantive actions taken by the Supreme Court in publicly filed JQC matters. The Rules of the JQC provide for the Supreme Court Clerk to act as the clerk for the JQC Hearing Panel. If you need additional information or desire other publicly available documents please contact the Clerk's office at 404-656-3470.
The current Rules of the Judicial Qualifications Commission became effective on January 1, 2018. JQC matters docketed prior to this date were decided under the previous Rules of the Judicial Qualifications Commission and Code of Judicial Conduct, which went into effect on March 1, 1994 and were amended through 2017.
S24Z1139. INQUIRY CONCERNING JUDGE SHERMELA J. WILLIAMS
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- Formal Charges
- Extension of Time to Answer
- Answer to formal Charges
- Scheduling Order
- Consent Order Extending Discovery
- Order Granting Director’s Withholding Request
- Scheduling Order
- Notice of Final Hearing
- Judge Williams’s Motion to Continue Final Hearing Scheduled for March 5, 2025
- Director’s Response in Opposition to Respondent’s Motion to Continue Final Hearing
- Order Continuing Final Hearing
- Order Setting Hearing on Formal Charges
- Scheduling Order
- Second Order Setting Hearing on Formal Charges
- Notice of Livestream Access
- Judge Shermela J. Williams’s Motion to Quash Formal Charges or in the Alternative Request for a Stay of the Proceedings and an Evidentiary Hearing
- Exhibit A to Motion to Quash
- Director’s Opposition to Respondent’s Motion to Quash Formal Charges
- Judge Shermela J. Williams’s Reply in Support of Motion to Quash Formal Charges or in the Alternative an Evidentiary Hearing
- Order Denying Evidentiary Hearing and Setting Oral Argument on Respondent’s Motion to Quash Formal Charges
- Order Denying Respondent’s Motion to Quash Formal Charges
- Order Setting Closing Arguments
- Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Stipulations and Admissions to Formal Charges
- Amended Admissions to Stipulations to Formal Charges
- Supreme Court Order (Briefing Schedule) – 10/10/2025
- Judge Shermela J. Williams’s Motion to Extend Time to File Exceptions to the Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Supreme Court Order (Granting Request for Extension of Time) – 10/23/2025
- Judge Shermela J. Williams’s Amended Notice of Exceptions to the JQC’s Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Motion to Strike Respondent’s Amended Notice of Exceptions
- Response to Respondent’s Amended Notice of Exceptions to the Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Amended Response to Respondent’s Amended Notice of Exceptions to the Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Judge Shermela J. Williams’s Reply Brief in Support of Her Notice of Exceptions to the JQC Hearing Panel’s Report and Recommendation
- Supreme Court Order (Request for Oral Argument) – 1/20/2026
- Notice of Filing
- Motion to Remand to the Judicial Qualifications Commission Hearing Panel
- Supreme Court Order (2/27/2026)
- Motion to Extend Time to File Judicial Qualifications Commission’s Brief
- Supreme Court Order (Request for Extension of Time) – 3/19/2026