Ms. Kathleen Burt Connell

Connell Cummings LLC

Katie Connell has been practicing family law exclusively since graduating Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University in 2005. 

Ms. Connell is a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and currently serves as the Georgia Chapter Secretary, as well as a member of the national Board of Governors. She has been a member of the Georgia Commission on Child Support for since her appointment by Governor Nathan Deal in 2013 where she currently co-chairs the Statute Review Committee. Ms. Connell is also on the Executive Committee for the Family Law Section for the State Bar of Georgia.

Ms. Connell has served numerous other committees in a variety of roles including as the past president of the Charles L. Weltner Family Law Inn of Court, past Chair for the Young Lawyers Division, Family Law Section. 

She is consistently recognized as a Georgia Super Lawyer by her peers, including Top 100 Super Lawyers, and Top 50 Women Lawyers. She has also been named one of Georgia Trend’s “Legal Elite, Georgia’s Most Effective Lawyers.”

Ms. Connell graduated with a B.S.B.A. in Accounting (2001) and Master’s in Accounting (2002) from Auburn University. A native of Savannah, Ga., Katie now lives in Atlanta with her husband and sons.