In 1991 she was appointed as a judge of the Cobb County Juvenile Court for a four-year term. There is not, at first glance, much to find humorous in juvenile court. It is, in part, a place of broken homes and broken lives, a symbol of individual and collective failure. Its case load has increased, but more ominous is the relative number of cases involving aggravated and violent circumstances. The juvenile code is being revised to account for these disheartening facts, and to give juvenile courts more effective tools for dealing with them.
Good humor is a handmaid of optimism.
Being ever alert for a reason to smile, Irma Glover finds regular cause to hope. She finds it in the perception of self worth of children from environments which are otherwise when they successfully complete a program mandated by her court. She invites lawyers to contact either the public defender s office or the juvenile court and to register to be appointed to juvenile cases. There is a need for more of us to do so. They are the brightest stars in her firmament.