Piedmont Circuit Veterans Treatment Court (Barrow County)

Georgia's accountability courts, including veterans treatment courts, rest on Code section 15-1-17; see the Georgia entry. The Council of Accountability Court Judges' directory lists the Piedmont Circuit Veterans Treatment Court, Judge Nick Primm, program director Victoria Bowman, serving "Banks, Barrow, and Jackson", begun July 2019. The county's page. The Piedmont Judicial Circuit Specialty Courts are "under the supervision of Superior Court" and run four courts in Jackson County, among them the Veterans Treatment Court, which "offers a sentencing alternative for defendants who are veterans of the armed forces of the United States or the State's National Guard and assess a need for substance use disorder and/or mental health treatment". The page names no discharge test, fees or phases. The money. On August 11, 2026 the Board of Commissioners approved the circuit's FY2027 accountability court grants. "The Piedmont Circuit Veterans Treatment Court was combined with the Piedmont Circuit Wellness (Mental Health) Court": the veterans court is now a track of the Wellness Court, its $55,843 share covered by Jackson County under the two counties' intergovernmental agreement, with Lifetime Counseling as its treatment provider and the two sheriffs' offices supplying surveillance officers. How. Ask defence counsel to raise it, or contact the program director, Victoria Bowman, 706-387-6399; the specialty courts office at the Barrow County Courthouse, 652 Barrow Park Drive, Winder, is 770-307-3506.