Rich In Experience

Rich in Experience is a memoir by the late Charles B. Mikell Jr. Chief Judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals. Judge Mikell--or Charlie as many knew him--became one of Georgia's great jurists but his path was long and winding. Rich in Experience takes the reader from Charlie's humble beginnings in coastal Georgia through the hallowed halls of Princeton University humid jungles of the Vietnam War grey uniformity of Communist Czechslovakia and rarified courtrooms throughout the State of Georgia. Charlie's stories about French kissing his high school dates smuggling a Czechslovak president's silverware and settling high-stakes disputes in Georgia law among other things are sure to intrigue and delight. He began work on Rich in Experience after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma a cancer of the bone marrow. Throughout the following seven years until his death in 2013 Charlie meditated and reflected on the rich experiences of his life and produced this compelling volume.