Rowland Barnes
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Rowland W. Barnes (April 25, 1940 – March 11, 2005) was a Fulton County, Georgia, Superior Court Judge who oversaw the 2003 trial of hockey star Dany Heatley, who killed his teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident.
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[edit] Education and employment
Barnes began his academic career at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1962. He then graduated from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972, and at the time of his death still held the title of adjunct professor at Emory. He was named to the Superior Court bench in 1988, having previously been a city court judge.
[edit] Death
Barnes was shot and killed on March 11, 2005, in his courtroom. Brian Nichols has been charged in connection with the shooting. According to reports, Nichols wrestled a gun from a sheriff's deputy present and shot her along with Judge Barnes and his court reporter. Nichols was taken into custody at an apartment complex in Duluth, Georgia, the next day.
Barnes' wife, Claudia, was working in the Fulton County Superior Court as a judicial assistant at the time of his murder.
