Judge Faye Sanders Martin University Honors Program Scholarship

This scholarship was established in 2002 by the Honorable Faye Sanders Martin. Hon. Martin was born in 1934 in Brooklet, Georgia to a family of farmers. Following her high school graduation, Faye began working as a secretary for Cohen Anderson, a lawyer in Statesboro. The salary at her new job provided her the means to attend Georgia Teachers College (now Georgia Southern University) where she studied law. She went on to move to Atlanta where she attended law school and successfully passed the law exam. Hon. Martin became the first female attorney in Bulloch County and practiced for over twenty-two years during which she married and had two children. She was also the first female in Georgia to be appointed to a Judicial Circuit and even won re-election for the position in 2000. During her service, she was recognized as the longest serving judge on the Superior Court Bench and was named the Chief Superior Court Judge and paved the way for women in law. Hon. Martin was also the first mother to swear in her own daughter as an attorney in Georgia. This scholarship is available to members of the University Honors Program.