G'ville attorney recognized by Congress; interim schools supt. named in Barrow Co.

*Judy Sartain of the Stearns-Montgomery & Proctor law firm in Gainesville was recently recognized by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) as Georgia’s 2023 Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Angels in Adoption Honoree. The CCAI’s Angels in Adoption Leadership Program honors a wide spectrum of individuals and organizations making “extraordinary contributions” in adoption and foster care, permanency, and child welfare. She was nominated by U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Jackson County).

*Rob Johnson has been named Interim Superintendent for the Barrow County School System (BCSS). A former Assistant Superintendent in the system he has most recently been serving as School Climate Specialist with Northeast Georgia Regional Educational Service Agency (RESA).

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.