[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Pages 16115-16116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         HONORING CONLEY INGRAM

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, I rise for a moment to pause and pay 
tribute to the life and accomplishments of a citizen of my home 
community, Judge Conley Ingram. In fact, in a few days a number of 
members of our community, his friends and associates over his career in 
law and community service, will join to celebrate his life and 
achievements and his birthday. He is a remarkable person whom I admire 
greatly because he has been a mentor to me and the example I have tried 
to follow. Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend that particular 
program, but today on the floor of the Senate, I wanted to memorialize 
a true storied jurist of the State of Georgia, probably amongst the top 
three or four from our State in the history of our State. He is a man 
who stands shoulder to shoulder with men such as Griffin Bell, the 
former Attorney General of the United States, and former Assistant 
Attorney General Larry Thompson.
  Conley Ingram has done about everything you can do as an attorney and 
a lawyer. When he graduated from Emory University 59 years ago and went 
into the service, he taught at the Judge Advocate School in 
Charlottesville, VA. From there, he went on to be city attorney, 
special assistant attorney general, juvenile court judge of the County 
of Cobb, and went on to become superior court judge in the County of 
Cobb. He then founded his own law firm and ran it for a number of years 
until he became a justice of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. 
After leaving there, he went with the storied firm of Alston & Bird and 
became probably the Nation's most recognized arbitrator and mediator of 
any attorney in the country. And not to finish and not to quit, for the 
last 12 years he has been a senior special superior court judge in Cobb 
County, GA, serving all the time the citizens of our State.
  But his greatest service is the example he shows. He has been 
selected our Community Citizen of the Year. He received excellence 
awards for the legacy he has left not just for his work on the bench, 
not just his work as a lawyer, but his work for the betterment of the 
community, whether it is the Boys Club or the Girls Club, whether it is 
his church, or whether it is his neighborhood.
  But for me, there is one special thing to say about Judge Conley 
Ingram: He is a man who takes time for everybody. He is a man who is 
willing to help. He

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is a man who would rather find common ground in the interest of both 
parties than have a winner-take-all philosophy of life.
  Probably the greatest blessing of Conley Ingram's life is his wife 
Sylvia, whom my wife Dianne and I cherish as a dear friend.
  So this week in which our community will celebrate the many 
accomplishments of the 59 years of the practice of law of Judge Conley 
Ingram and his life in general, I am proud to stand on the floor of the 
Senate and say: Conley, thank you, not just for what you have done for 
me but what you have done for so many people in our great State and for 
this great country, the United States of America.
  I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mr. MERKLEY. I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum 
call be rescinded.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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