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Georgia Notary in Judge’s Disputed Will Case Stripped of Commission

THE CENTER SQUARE—The notary public who certified that a Georgia judge’s brother signed a will 12 days before his death once certified another signature for the judge’s family—by a dead woman, an investigation by The Center Square found.

After The Center Square started asking questions about her work, Jacquelyn Walker has been stripped of her notary license.

Two years before DeKalb County Judge Rhathelia Stroud filed a family will that’s now being challenged as an alleged forgery, the same notary verified the signature of the judge’s sister-in-law on a different legal document, a warranty deed transferring ownership of a timeshare vacation resort property. Walker officially recorded that the woman appeared before her with the signed deed in November 2023—three weeks after the woman had died of cancer, records show.

That discrepancy prompted the agency that commissioned her, the Fulton County Clerk of Superior and Magistrate Courts, to revoke her notary status on Tuesday. The revocation notice says Walker’s commission is “hereby revoked, effective immediately” and orders her to destroy her notary stamp. Walker will have a chance to appeal.

“I’m looking at the warranty deed. I see the death........

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