You know her as Twanda Black, the Host of “Good News Gospel” every Sunday from 7 am to 12 noon on WPGN Radio Atlanta, but there is much more to the Tampa native. She is a writer, an avid reader, and an amateur photographer. Twanda served as the Public Affairs Director for KISS 1041.1 FM for over 25 years where she served as the liaison between the station and the community and hosted the public affairs talk show “Business in the Black” every Sunday.

Twanda volunteers her time and talent to various organizations, but her heart belongs to issues of food insecurity and senior citizens. She can be found in and around Georgia hosting ceremonies, parties, shows, church events, awards dinners and other benevolent causes. She was recently honored with an induction into the Black Radio Hall of Fame, the Lifetime Achievement Award for over four thousand volunteer hours from President Obama and President Biden also, as one of Atlanta’s Top 100 Women of Influence by the Atlanta Business League, Voted Steeple Awards “Best in Media” and is a board member of Showability, serving the disability performing artist community and is the CFO for the PG Network which focuses on the independent gospel artist community. Twanda is the host for the syndicated show, Inspirations Across America, airing in 28 markets in the USA. She also hosts the television show Good News with Twanda Black on PG TV and Hosts the Black Entertainment Gospel Video Show on the Bee TV Network in the Lagrange and Alabama viewing areas.

She is also a Voice Over Talent, A MyEcon Financial Associate, and a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant! Twanda is a licensed and ordained Minister of the Gospel, married with two adult sons, and is a member of Grace Baptist Church in Stockbridge, GA.

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The Honorable Myra H. Dixon is a Fulton County State Court Judge who has served since 1999. As a Judge, she presides over civil and criminal cases. She served as the Chief Judge of Fulton County State Court from 2015 to 2017 and was the second African American woman to serve in that capacity.

Judge Dixon is a 1975 graduate of Tennessee State University and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and Education. She attended Howard University School of Law where she served as “Lead Articles Editor” for the Howard Law Journal and received her Juris Doctorate degree with honors in 1978.

Judge Dixon’s career has been distinguished and diverse. She was a partner with the firm of Thomas, Kennedy, Sampson and Tompkins becoming the firm’s first woman partner in 1992. Prior to joining the firm she was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in 1983. Judge Dixon served as an Assistant Public Defender and as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel for the Navy at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

Judge Dixon is an active member of her community and various bar associations. In 2018, she was honored with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Daily Report, a local and national legal publication. In 2015 Judge Dixon received three distinct honors; she was inducted into the Gate City Bar’s “Hall of Fame”, awarded the prestigious “Romae T. Powell Judicial Service Award” by the Atlanta Bar Association, Judicial Section, and honored with the “Leah Ward Sears Award For Distinction in the Profession” by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Additionally, Judge Dixon has been featured in the Atlanta Tribune magazine in the “Meet the Judge”, March edition. She was honored as an outstanding woman in Women Looking Ahead Magazine, Who’s Who in Black Atlanta, and Black Judges in America. She was awarded the “Pinnacle Leadership Award” by Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. (East Point Chapter) and was also honored as an “Outstanding Former Memphian” by the city of Memphis.

Judge Dixon served as Chair of the Judicial Section of the Gate City Bar Association in 2007 and was the chair of the “Robes in Schools” program for the 2010 biennial “Just the Beginning Foundation”. She is an active member of the National Bar Association and served as the 2014 Co-Convention Chair of the Judicial Council.

Judge Dixon enjoys mentoring young people interested in a career in the legal field and has emphasized mentoring students through internships and shadowing opportunities in her office. She appears regularly as a guest speaker at local schools, civic organizations, and continuing education seminars. In 2013, Judge Dixon was invited to attend the White House for a conference to review and discuss research on the effect of parental incarceration on children.

Judge Dixon and Attorney Pat D. Dixon, Jr., also a graduate of Howard University School of Law, have two children, Kyra D. Banks, (Gabe Banks) and Pat D. Dixon III, (Ashlee Dixon) who have followed in their footsteps and have pursued careers in the legal profession.

Dr. Aaron L. Parker, born in Canton, Mississippi, earned his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1975, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and later completed his M.A. in Religious Studies and Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Emory University.

Since 1979, Dr. Parker has served as an Associate Professor of Religion at Morehouse College, shaping the minds of future leaders. In addition to his academic contributions, he has been the pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church since 1994.

Dr. Parker is married to Shelia Smith Parker, with whom he shares two children, Aaron Larry, Jr., and Asha Liana, and a granddaughter, Laila Marie Parker-Booth.