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Rowland Wayne Barnes (April 25, 1940 – March 11, 2005) was an American Superior Court Judge in Fulton County, Georgia. He oversaw the 2003 trial of the professional ice hockey player Dany Heatley, who was charged with vehicular homicide after the death of teammate Dan Snyder in a car accident. In an unrelated incident, Judge Barnes was shot to death in his courtroom in 2005.

Education and employment

Barnes attended Frankfurt High School in Germany and Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1962. He studied business and then law at George Washington University and then graduated from Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972. At the time of his death he held the title of adjunct professor at Emory. Barnes had served as a city judge and a magistrate before his appointment by Governor Zell Miller to the Fulton Superior Court in 1998.

Murder

Barnes was murdered in his courtroom on March 11, 2005, by Brian Nichols, who was convicted for the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nichols attacked a sheriff's deputy and was able to take her gun, and then went to the courtroom and shot Judge Barnes, his court reporter, and later a sheriff's deputy and a federal agent, all of whom died of their injuries. Nichols was taken into custody at an apartment complex in Duluth, Georgia, the following day.

External links

• Lebanon Valley College Memorial Project
• In Memory of Judge Rowland W. Barnes

• 1940 births
• 2005 deaths
• 2005 murders in the United States
• American murder victims
• Assassinated American judges
• Georgia (U.S. state) state court judges
• George Washington University School of Business alumni
• People murdered in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Deaths by firearm in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Emory University School of Law alumni
• Lebanon Valley College alumni
• Emory University faculty
• 20th-century American judges
• George Washington University Law School alumni