How to Find Forsyth County Court Dockets
The fastest route to a Forsyth County court docket is the Clerk's homepage. The Clerk of Superior, State & Juvenile Courts posts a daily calendar that lists Superior Court, State Court, and Juvenile Court hearings in one place. The same page links to re:SearchGA for full case-level docket entries, but the home calendar handles the schedule-at-a-glance view.
For Magistrate Court hearings, use the Magistrate Court department page. For estates, marriage hearings, guardianship, and conservatorship dates, use Probate Court. Municipal Court calendars for Cumming city traffic and ordinance cases sit with the City of Cumming.
- Open forsythclerk.com and scroll to the daily calendar.
- Read the date column for hearing time and the court column for which judge.
- Use "Case Search" for the full docket-entry history on a specific case.
- Sign in to re:SearchGA to view docket entries one by one.
- Call the Clerk at 770-781-2120 if a case number does not return any result.
The Forsyth County Court Calendar
A typical week on the Clerk calendar shows civil jury trials, criminal bench trials, criminal arraignments, jury calendar call, bond forfeitures, DUI review hearings, jail calendar, motions and revocations, family violence and stalking dockets, criminal pleas, traffic arraignment, and Failure-to-Appear deadlines. The same calendar lists Drug Court, DUI Court, and C.A.R.E. Court sessions.
The Superior Court judges' page shows the Bell-Forsyth Circuit bench.
The page identifies the Superior Court chief judge and the two associate judges who handle felony, divorce, equity, and title-to-land dockets.
State Court runs a parallel set of calendars for misdemeanor and traffic work.
The State Court page lists the chief judge and the associate judge who run misdemeanor arraignments, traffic calendar work, DUI Court, and DUI review hearings.
Forsyth County Superior Court Dockets
Superior Court is the general-jurisdiction trial court in the Bell-Forsyth Judicial Circuit. Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Bagley, Judge David L. Dickinson, and Judge Philip C. Smith share the Superior Court docket. Felony, divorce, equity, title-to-land, declaratory judgment, habeas, mandamus, quo warranto, prohibition, and certiorari calendars all run through Superior Court.
Civil jury trials and criminal jury calendar calls take up the heaviest blocks. Bond forfeiture, motions, and revocations move quickly. Drug Court sits on the Superior Court side under Chief Judge Bagley. A typical Superior Court week mixes civil jury trials, criminal bench trials, jail calendars, criminal arraignments, and bond status hearings. The full file behind any Superior Court hearing lives in the Clerk's court records system. See the Superior Court page for the courtroom and judge breakdown.
Forsyth County State Court Dockets
State Court runs the misdemeanor docket, the traffic docket, and civil cases not reserved to Superior Court. Chief Judge T. Russell McClelland and Judge James A. Dunn share State Court duties. DUI Court and DUI review hearings sit under Chief Judge McClelland.
Traffic calendar entries follow a 10-to-14 business-day lag because the State Court Criminal & Traffic Citations Division needs that window to load citations.
The page above explains the wait time, accident-citation flow, and which violations cannot be paid online. Reckless driving, speeding 24 mph or more over the posted limit, and cell phone use are not payable online. See traffic court records for the full citation lookup walkthrough.
Magistrate and Probate Court Dockets
Magistrate Court runs its own dockets out of 1090 Tribble Gap Road in Cumming. Chief Magistrate Keisha Chambless leads the Magistrate bench. Magistrate Court calendars cover civil claims of $15,000 or less, dispossessory hearings, distress warrants, bad-check matters, ordinance violations, preliminary hearings, arrest and search warrants, and bail review when not reserved to another court. E-filing is handled through eFileGA.
Probate Court runs estate, guardianship, conservatorship, weapons-carry, and marriage hearings out of 100 West Courthouse Square. Judge Daisy Weeks-Marisko presides. Probate Court is Article 6, which means its appeals go directly to the Court of Appeals of Georgia or the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Probate Court asks in-person marriage and weapons-carry applicants to arrive no later than 4:00 p.m., even though the office runs until 4:30. The Magistrate Court page is the entry point for warrants and small-claims hearings; the Magistrate Court phone line is 770-781-2211. Calendars and posted hearing dates may shift if a judge is sick, if a case settles, or if a continuance is granted. Always call ahead before a long drive to the courthouse for a docket call.
Reading a Forsyth County Docket Entry
Each docket entry on re:SearchGA shows a small set of fields. Knowing the columns helps when reading a calendar call or a printout from the Clerk.
| Field | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Date / Time | Scheduled hearing date and start time. |
| Court / Division | Superior, State, Juvenile, Probate, or Magistrate. |
| Judge | Assigned judge for the calendar block. |
| Case Number | Court-assigned ID linking to the full file. |
| Parties | Plaintiff, defendant, State of Georgia, or petitioner. |
| Type | Arraignment, plea, motion, bench trial, jury trial, status, or revocation. |
| Status | Scheduled, called, continued, disposed, or off-calendar. |
| Notes | Bond status, jail or bond list, or specialty-court tag. |
Note: A docket entry is not a final order. The order appears as a separate document filed after the hearing.
Common Forsyth County Docket Codes
The Clerk's calendar uses local shorthand. The codes below show up almost every week and confuse first-time readers.
- FMV & Stalking - Family Violence and Stalking docket.
- ASH & Pleas - Arraignment, Status Hearing, and Pleas in one block.
- Criminal PTC - Criminal Pretrial Conference.
- FTA Deadline - Failure-to-Appear deadline; missing it triggers a bench warrant.
- Jail Calendar - Hearings for defendants in custody.
- Bond Status - Review of bond conditions.
- Revocations - Probation or bond revocation hearings.
- Bond Forfeitures - Hearings on forfeited bond money.
Jury Service and Forsyth County Court Calendars
Jury calendar call appears on Superior and State Court docket weeks. The Clerk runs Jury Services from the same office that handles court records. Jury duty is the most common reason a Forsyth County resident reads a public docket.
The Clerk's Jury Information page covers reporting, eJuror, and the jury phone line.
The page lists eJuror at ejuror.forsythco.com and the jury phone line at 770-781-2135. Bring a photo ID, plan for security screening, and use Mason Street Deck or Castleberry Deck for parking.
Sealed and Restricted Forsyth County Dockets
Not every Forsyth County hearing appears on a public docket. Juvenile Court calendars are restricted under Georgia juvenile-code rules. Adoption hearings are sealed. Sealed criminal files under the Uniform Superior Court Rule 21 process stay off the public list. Active investigations or sealed warrants also stay private until execution and unsealing.
The Clerk's office cannot release a sealed calendar entry without a court order. Parties and counsel can ask the assigned court for access. For a sealed warrant, the Sheriff's Office handles service through Magistrate Court; the public side stays closed until the arrest.