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Lisa Marie Mantz
Associate Judge, Newton County Juvenile Court
1132 Usher Street
Covington, Georgia 30014
(770) 784-2060
Judge Lisa Mantz has served at the associate judge in the Newton County Juvenile Court
since 2002. She graduated from Dickson College in 1990 with a BA in history and
received her law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1993. Her prior legal
experience includes serving as the Special Assistant Attorney General for Newton
County, Putnam County and Jasper County Departments of Family and Children and the
Newton County Office of Child Support Enforcement and as a municipal prosecutor. She
is active in the Council of Juvenile Court Judges, where she is currently serves as
chairperson of the behavioral health, developmental disability and additive disease
committee, vice-chair of the Delinquency Committee and Chairperson of the
Delinquency Improvement Initiative and as member of the education/certification
committee.
She is currently serving as a Core Team Member of Georgia Department of Juvenile
Justice Policy Academy-Action Network Initiative, for improving Diversion Programs
for Justice-Involved Youth with Behavioral Health Disorders, Chairperson of the Newton
County Student Attendance Protocol Committee, and as an advisory board member for
The Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. She is a contractor with the
Administrative Office of Courts, Supreme Court Committee on Justice for Children,
focusing on compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act and is a Fellow, Lawyer’s
Foundation of Georgia, Inc.
Judge has previously served as the Chairperson of the Kidsnet Newton County Policy
Council, a member of the State Board of Education Truancy Task Force, the legal/policy
chairperson for the Newton County MacArthur Foundation Technical Assistance Award,
the State Infrastructure Grant and has been a past president of the local bar association.
Judge Mantz has been a speaker and presenter at child welfare and continuing education
conferences for both attorneys and the judiciary and community stakeholders, including
the following: Child Support Enforcement Conference, Georgia Council of Juvenile
Court Judges Conferences, Superior Court Guardian Ad Litem Training, Foster Care
Parent Training, Department of Juvenile Justice Conferences, SAMSHA System of Care
Conferences, Community Health Summits and the Georgia Dbhdd Training —Critical
Issues Facing Special Needs And At-Risk Children And Youth: 8th Professional Seminar
Series. Her areas of interests include the effect of nutrition and wellbeing on academic
achievement, juvenile competency and restoration, juvenile delinquency and anti-social
behavior.