Know Your Judge: Orinda D. Evans

This week in Know Your Judge, we feature Orinda D. Evans of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Evans joined the federal bench in 1979 after she was nominated by President Jimmy Carter. Evans served as chief judge from 1999 to 2006 and two years later assumed senior status.

One of her recent rulings in an employee benefits case allowed a group of SunTrust Bank Inc. workers to proceed as a class with their claims that the financial firm violated federal benefits law by allegedly offering high-fee, underperforming in-house funds in its 401(k) plan.

In 2013, ...