Sand Mountain Reporter

Albertville Attorney Greg Price announced his intentions to seek the District Court Judge Place 2, currently held by Judge Tim Riley.

“It wasn’t a decision I made quickly,” Price said. “ It is one that I have been thinking about for a while, but it wasn’t what I initially wanted to do when I started practicing law.”

Price said when he began he saw himself more as working his way to be a district attorney because of his law enforcement background, but he said after he started practicing law his priorities changed.

“I saw the need for good lawyers out there to defend people, not that there are not good lawyers here, there are good lawyers here, there are great lawyers here, and I don’t want to be derogatory toward any of them, but I don’t think people respect the courthouse like they use to.”

Price said he wants to change the perception of the way people view the court system and that is why he has chosen to run for district judge.

“I guess I’m naive in a way of thinking a judge is not there to judge a person by how they look, how they talk, what they wear. There are some people who just can’t dress like I can, can’t afford to dress like I can. I understand that, but there is a proper respect for the court as well.”

When Price refers to a “lack of respect for the court,” he said the court should be more than “just a judge,” and people should not feel like they are already going to be found guilty once they step through the doors.

“People don’t feel like they can walk into a court room and be treated fairly.”

Price has been practicing law since he graduated from the Birmingham School of Law in 2002. He has represented more than 1,500 indigent defendants, and the primary focus of his practice is in the juvenile courts. He has worked on over 1,500 cases involving juvenile dependency, custody and DHR matters as well as juvenile delinquency and child-in-need-of-supervision cases.

He is married to the former Leslie Powell, of Sardis City, who is a second grade teacher in Boaz.

He has two daughters and he is a member of Mountainboro Missionary Baptist Church where he teaches the senior adult Sunday school class and is song director.

“It’s the integrity of the court,” Price said. “They see a judge and they have to think he is a man of the law. He is a man of respect. He is a man of honesty. He is a man of integrity. And they say, I’m going to be treated fairly today.”

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