Mr. Robert E. Wilson

Wilson Morton & Downs LLC

Bob Wilson is a founding member of Wilson, Morton & Downs, LLC. His

practice focuses on the areas of civil and business litigation and dispute

resolution, education law, municipal law, corporate and government

investigations and church and religious association law.

Bob served three terms as the District Attorney of the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit. Prior to this, he served

as an Assistant District Attorney and as Chief Public Defender. While District Attorney, Bob established

Georgia's first Child Abuse Prosecution Unit, first Career Criminal Prosecution Unit, as well as one of Georgia's

first victim Assistance Programs. Bob holds the highest rating possible for legal skills and ethical standards

from the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review ratings system.

Georgia Governors for the past 40 years have relied on Bob for numerous special assignments and

investigative work. The scope of this work has varied, ranging from unfair business practices of Fleet Finance,

Inc. and public corruption to unexplained DFCS child fatalities and the widely publicized Atlanta Public Schools

cheating scandal involving standardized tests.

Bob earned a B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina and a J.D. from Emory University School of

Law. He has also completed Harvard Law School's Mediation program and has served as a court appointed

mediator and special master, and served for nearly ten years as the Hearing Officer for the Georgia Lottery

Corporation. He is licensed to practice in Georgia and North Carolina and is a member of the Atlanta Bar

Association, the Atlanta Lawyers Club and the DeKalb Bar Association. Bob is a graduate of Leadership

DeKalb and Leadership Georgia, as well as a member and past president of the Decatur Rotary Club.

Bob has helped found three non-profit organizations that provide assistance and counseling to sexual assault

victims, abused children, and support for public education, and served as the first chair of the Board of each

entity. He has served on numerous public and private boards, and for the past 25 years has served on the

Board of Trustees for the DeKalb Regional Health System, as chair from 2019 - 2023, an operating unit of

Emory Healthcare, and served for 13 years as chair of the System's Foundation. In November of 2016, at the request of the Board, Bob assumed the position of President and CEO of the System. In that role he helped

stabilize the system while helping to lead it into a partnership with Emory Healthcare as of September 2018.

Bob also currently serves on the Emory Healthcare Board.

During his career, Bob has been the recipient of many distinguished awards and recognitions acknowledging

his leadership and contributions to child welfare, healthcare, education, public safety, government and other

areas that affect the entire community. Over the past 35 years, Bob has been named several times by Georgia

Trend magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Georgians.

Bob and his wife, Lynda, live in Decatur and are the parents of three children, all married, and grandparents of

four grandchildren. He is an active member of the Decatur Presbyterian Church, where he has served as elder

and trustee.