Atlanta Police Investigate After Cop Said to Have Sex with Judge

The Atlanta Police Department is investigating whether the officer who a judicial conduct committee found had sex with a federal judge in chambers is one of its employees, the department said in a statement.

Eleanor Ross of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia is the judge who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex with a police officer in chambers in earshot of law clerks, according to a person familiar with the situation.

The department’s statement Thursday came shortly after Bloomberg Law reported the officer was Deputy Chief Kelley Collier, according to the source familiar with the situation. Collier commands the Atlanta Police Department’s community services division, according to the department’s website.

A special committee of the Eleventh Circuit created to investigate the misconduct found that an unnamed judge engaged in sexual intercourse in “chambers and during business hours” over the course of a two-year relationship. The affair with a police department commander also created a “conflict-of-interest risk,” the report said.

The judge didn’t preside over any case in which the officer or the police department was a party between January 2022 and October 2025, according to the committee report.

Ross received a private reprimand and was ordered to write letters of apology to the clerks interviewed for the committee’s investigation, the order said.

— With assistance from Suzanne Monyak in Washington.