Julian Webb

Thomas Julian Webb (October 2, 1911 – October 29, 2002) was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1974. He was also a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals from 1974 to 1979.

Early life Webb was born in Byromville, Georgia in Dooly County to Vester Otis and Flossie Irene Woodruff Webb. He graduated from Valdosta High School and then attended Mercer University where he was president of the Sigma Pi fraternity chapter and the Ciceronians debate and literature society. He graduated from Mercer with his A.B. degree in 1931 and his LL.B in 1932. In law school he was a member of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity. His first job was practising in Augusta, Georgia before taking a job with the legal staff of the Farm Credit Administration in Columbia, South Carolina in 1933. He would later be moved to Washington, D.C. where he stayed until 1942.

Arthur K. Bolton, the former Attorney General of Georgia, credited Webb with being "very instrumental in securing passage of the present Appellate Court Retirement System of Georgia, and this did as much to strengthen our appellate judicial system in Georgia as anything done in recent history." He was elected to the position later that year. While on the court, he was appointed to the Governor's Commission on Court Organization and Structure in 1975. He was also a member of the National Council of State Court Representatives from 1975 to 1978 and chairman of the Judicial Council of Georgia from 1978 to 1979.

Legal career after retirement In 1981, he served as the judge (pro bono) of the Juvenile Court of Seminole County, He also served as county attorney during 1985.

Awards Webb was named Citizen of the Year in 1984 for Donalsonville. He received an honorary Doctorate of Law from Mercer in 1988. He was named outstanding Alumnus of the Walter F. George School of Law in 1997.

Retirement Webb eventually moved to St. Simon Island where he died a couple of months after his wife.