Handles all civil suits under $15,000, landlord / tenant disputes
and bad checks.
Issues criminal warrants and search warrants.
Sets bonds on most criminal arrests.
Handles all preliminary hearings.
877 LaFayette Street
Ringgold, GA 30736
Phone (706) 935-3114; Fax (706) 965-9036
Probate Court
Gene Lowery
Description:
Traffic jurisdiction hearings, guardianships, and letters of
administration.
Probates wills, and handles estate administration.
Issues gun permits.
Issues marriage licenses.
875 Lafayette Street
Ringgold, GA 30736
Phone (706) 935-3511
Sheriff's Department
Phil Summers, Sheriff
Description:
Handles traffic enforcement, civil disturbances and criminal
investigations.
Participates in civic programs
Maintains a detention facility for felony and misdemeanors.
Serves magistrate, superior and probate courts in Catoosa County.
Serves all documents in civil cases in court systems.
Maintains a Communications Center (9-1-1) which dispatches all
emergency fire, ambulance and law enforcement for Catoosa County, except for the City of
Ft. Oglethorpe law enforcement.
Capt. Gary Sisk, Patrol Division Commander
Capt. Scott Jordan, Detective Division Commander
Capt. Pat Bedford,
Jail Administrator/Jail Division
Commander
Superior Court
Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Judges
Jon Bolling Wood, Chief Judge
P.O. Box 1185
LaFayette, GA 30728
Phone (706) 638-1650
Kristina Cook Connelly
P.O. Box 179
Summerville, GA 30747
Phone (706) 857-0715
Ralph Hill
P.O. Box 525
LaFayette, GA 30728
Phone (706) 638-6394
Ralph Van Pelt
7694 Nashville Street
Ringgold, GA 30736
Phone (706) 965-4047
Senior Judges:
Bo Loggins, Senior Judge
7694 Nashville Street
Ringgold, GA 30736
Joe B. Tucker, Senior Judge
7694 Nashville Street
Ringgold, GA 30736
Phone (706) 965-4047
Description:
Responsible for criminal and civil court proceedings.