Glenda Hatchett Bio, Wiki, Age, Husband, Sons, Law Firm, Salary, Net Worth

Glenda Hatchett Biography

Glenda Hatchett is the star of the former court show, Judge Hatchett, and current day The Verdict with Judge Hatchett. She is also a founding partner at the national law firm, The Hatchett Firm.

Glenda Hatchett Age

Hatchett is 70 years old as of 2021. She was born May 31, 1951, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. She celebrates her birthday on 31st May every year.

Glenda Hatchett Height

Hatchett stands at a height of 1.65 meters.

Glenda Hatchett Family

Hatchett was born in Atlanta, Georgia. However, not much is known about her family as she has kept the details of her parents and siblings off the limelight. We will update you once this information is available to us.

Glenda Hatchett Husband

Hatchett currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her two sons. However, it is not known if she is married or not as she keeps her love life off the limelight. There are also no rumours of him being in any relationship with anyone.

Glenda Hatchett Daughter in Law

Hatchett stated in May 2017 that her daughter-in-law died 12 hours after giving birth through cesarean in the hospital due to major blood loss. Kyira Dixon Johnson, 39, died in April of last year after the scheduled c-section delivery of her second son with husband Charles S. Johnson IV at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. On Wednesday, Hatchett stood outside the hospital with her distraught son, learning that Johnson had filed a wrongful death lawsuit over his wife’s death. The complaint claims that the doctors in charge of Kyira’s treatment failed to respond appropriately to her symptoms and treat her appropriately when she began bleeding after giving birth. According to court filings, doctors operating on her hours after the birth discovered three liters of blood in her abdomen.

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Glenda Hatchett Net Worth

Hatchett has an estimated net worth of $5 Million, which she has earned through her career as a judge.

Glenda Hatchett Salary

Hatchett earns an annual salary of $2 Million.

Glenda Hatchett Education

Mount Holyoke College awarded her a B.A. in political science in 1973. She was also honored as a noteworthy alumna by the institution in 2000, receiving an honorary degree. She subsequently went on to Emory University School of Law, where she graduated with a juris doctorate in 1977.

Glenda Hatchett Career

Hatchett completed a coveted federal clerkship in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia after graduating from law school, followed by a job at Delta Air Lines. She rose up the ranks at Delta to become the airline’s highest-ranking woman of color in the world, holding positions as senior attorney and public relations manager. Hatchett handled litigation in federal courts across the country as a senior attorney, and as Manager of Public Relations, she oversaw worldwide crisis management and media relations for Europe, Asia, and the United States.

Hatchett was named one of the “100 Best and Brightest Black Women in Corporate America” by Ebony Magazine in January 1990, in recognition of her exceptional efforts. Glenda received the Emory Medal, the university’s highest honor given to an alum, for her commitment to achievement and community service. Hatchett left Delta Air Lines in 1990 to accept a position as Chief Presiding Judge of the Fulton County, Georgia Juvenile Court, a difficult decision.

Hatchett became Georgia’s first African-American Chief Presiding Judge of a state court and the leader of one of the country’s largest juvenile court systems after accepting the position. Hatchett departed Fulton County in 2000 to become the judge on Judge Hatchett, a nationally syndicated television show that ran for eight seasons (Sony Pictures Television) and is currently in its sixth year of national syndication.

The WeTV network is presently airing “The Best of Judge Hatchett.” In 2008 and 2009, The Judge Hatchett Show was nominated for two daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program. Hatchett wrote the national best-seller “Say What You Mean, Mean What You Say” (HarperCollins) in 2004 and the #1 National Bestseller “Dare to Take Charge: How to Live Your Life on Purpose” (CenterStreet) in 2010.

She has served on the boards of directors of Gap, Inc., Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), and The Service Master Company in the past. Hatchett has been a board member of the Atlanta Falcons Football Organization since 2004 and is a member of the Play Pumps International Board of Advisors. She is also a member of the National Board of Governors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Glenda Hatchett Law Firm

In 2014, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to establish The Hatchett Company, PC, a nationwide law firm specializing in catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, and class action cases. Hatchett is a motivational speaker who speaks at conferences and events across the United States in addition to practicing law. She was the opening keynote speaker at the 10th Anniversary of the Pennsylvania Conference for Women in 2013, where Hillary Clinton gave the closing speech.

Glenda is the only speaker who has been invited to present at the Conference twice in its ten-year history. She gave the Holmes-Hunter Lecture at the University of Georgia in 2015, in honor of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Hamilton Holmes, the first African-American student to enroll at UGA in 1961. Hatchett has featured as a guest commentator and legal analyst on national matters on a variety of media venues.

She’s been a guest on The View, Jimmy Kimmel Live, The Mo’Nique Show, and The Young and the Restless more than a dozen times as a guest analyst on CNN. Hatchett announced her comeback to television in April 2015, with “The Verdict with Judge Hatchett,” a new court show planned to broadcast in Fall 2016 under Entertainment Studios. Her law company declared on July 11, 2016, that they will be defending the Castile family in all civil legal actions.

Glenda Hatchett Books

  • Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say! 7 Simple Strategies to Help Our Children Along the Path to Purpose and Possibility (Harper Collins, 2003) (2004 paperback published with subtitle Saving Your Child from a Troubled World.)
  • Dare to Take Charge: How to Live Your Life on Purpose (Center Street, 2010)

 

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