Lynne Moore Nelson

Lynne Moore Nelson became executive director of the Institute of Continuing Judicial Education (ICJE) of Georgia in 2022 after many years of legal experience in both the public and private sectors.

ICJE, which has benefited from a collaborative relationship with the University of Georgia School of Law since the mid-1970s, is responsible for Georgia's statewide educational system for judges and court staff. To fulfill this continuing education mission, Nelson directs the needs assessments, facilitates curriculum development, oversees conferences and works with various committees and councils representing judges and court staff throughout Georgia. ICJE's current constituents include: Superior Court judges and clerks, State Court judges, Superior and State Court judicial staff attorneys, Probate Court judges and clerks, Magistrate Court judges and clerks, Juvenile Court judges and clerks, Municipal Court judges and clerks, and Council of Accountability Court judges and staff.

Previously Nelson was the court administrator for the Fulton County Magistrate Court. She also served as the chief of staff in the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office. For more than one decade, she held various leadership roles within the Chicago Public Schools system, and she led a strategic program redesign for the Chicago Community Trust.

After earning her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and her law degree from Mercer University, Nelson served as a judicial clerk for Assistant Chief Judge Pamela G. Alexander of the Minnesota Fourth Judicial District Court and was an associate attorney at Larkin, Hoffman, Daly & Lindgren in Minnesota.