Patrise Perkins-Hooker (Special Counsel) is an honors graduate of Georgia Tech and received her graduate degrees from Emory University Law and Business Schools. She was admitted to the Bar in 1984.

She rejoined the firm after distinguished service as the City Attorney for Atlanta. Prior to her service to the City, she served as County Attorney for Fulton County, Georgia. Prior to joining Fulton County, she served as the vice president and general counsel for the Atlanta BeltLine Inc. for six years. She is a former a partner with the law firm of Hollowell, Foster & Gepp, PC, where she was in charge of the Commercial Real Estate Group. She was a former Managing Partner of Johnson, Freeman & Perkins-Hooker. She also owned her own law firm for over 10 years.

She has served the community in a variety of positions including serving as Chair of the Atlanta Board of Zoning Adjustments, Chair of the Emory Business School Alumni Board, and Chair of Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless. She has received numerous honors for her service to the legal profession and the community, including being inducted into the Gate City Bar Association’s Hall of Fame, being presented the Leah Ward Sears Service to the Profession Award by the Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys, being presented an Honorary degree from the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, being presented the Eleonoré Raoul Greene Trailblazer Award from Emory University Law School and being presented the 2020 George A. Pindar Award for Lifetime Service to the Real Property profession. She has also received the Phoenix Award from two Mayors of Atlanta.