Rowland Barnes Who were his parents, grandparents? Family-Placed Death Notice Judge Rowland W. Barnes Judge Rowland Wayne Barnes was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming. At the age of nine months, he and his mother moved to Takoma Park, Maryland and remained in Takoma Park, Maryland until his mother re-married a career military man. Thereafter, he attended eight different schools in five different states and ended up graduating from Frankfurt American High School in Frankfurt, Germany. Rowland attended his freshman year of college at Grand Rapids Junior College in Grand Rapids, Michigan and finished his undergraduate schooling at Lebanon Valley College in Anneville, Pennsylvania (his father was stationed at Indiantown Gap, P.A.) He graduated with a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration with a minor in History. About three-fourths of the way through his MBA at George Washington University, he decided to transfer to law school. He attended his freshman year of law school at George Washington University and finished up at Emory University in Atlanta, graduating in June, 1972. He was admitted to the Georgia Bar in November, 1972. Before being appointed to the Superior Court bench, Rowland presided over the following courts in Georgia: Superior Court; State Court, Magistrate Court; Municipal Court and Juvenile Court, and sat in the counties of Fulton, Clayton, Hall, Fannin, Gilmer, White and Pickins. He first served in the City of Hapeville Municipal Court as Pro Hac Vice in 1982, where he became the Assistant Judge, then Chief Judge from 1990 to August, 1998. He was appointed as Chief Judge in Fairburn from 1990 to 1998, and served in Fulton County Magistrate Court as a part-time Magistrate from 1987 to 1998. Rowland was appointed to the Superior Court Bench on August 05, 1998 by Governor Zell Miller, was elected to his first four year term in November, 2000, again being re-elected for another four-year term in 2004. Some of his proudest moments were: being elected Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities (61-62); being a quarterback on the Lebanon Valley College football team that won the first (and, so far, the only) league championship since the school was founded in 1866; and making it through the U.S. Air Force basic training. He served in the National Guard and thereafter on active duty with the U.S.A.F. in 1968-1969 following the Pueblo Crisis. Judge Barnes leaves behind a wife, Claudia Bannister Barnes, daughters and sons-in-law, Holly Ditmar, Kiley Barnes, Dia and Scott Johnston, Leah and Curtis Smith; sons and daughter-in-law, Lonnie and Michelle Ford, Jesse Ford; brothers, Edwin Weih and Mark Weih; fourteen grandchildren and five nieces and nephews. Funeral Services will be held Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 2:00 at Tne Georgia International Convention Center, 2000 Convention Center Concourse, College Park, Georgia 30337. Parrott Funeral Home, Fairburn, (770) 964-4800 Published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 3/14/2005 - 3/16/2005.