Sara Miller McArthur

Sara McArthur is a 1985 graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and a 1981 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has practiced exclusively in the Athens/Oconee area since 1985. Sara has also served, since 1992, part-time, as the Juvenile Court Judge of the Western Judicial Circuit, Oconee Division.  Prior to forming the law firm of McArthur & McArthur , (later, McArthur, McArthur & Overend), she served as senior public defender for the University of Georgia Legal Aid Society.  She has tried hundreds of criminal defense cases, ranging from Murder, Child Molestation, to D.U.I. and traffic offenses.  

Sara also has extensive experience in the preparation and trial of complex business and personal injury cases.  Together, John and Sara McArthur have settled, or received verdicts in complex litigation matters, in millions of dollars.

Sara is active in her profession,  having served as Chair of the Child Abuse Protocol Committee; member of the Investigative Panel of the Disciplinary Panel of the State Bar of Georgia;  member of the Child Attendance Protocol committee;  training team member for adoptive families; member of the tri-partite Western Judicial Circuit Public Defender's Committee;  member of the Western Circuit Bar Association and of the  State Bar of Georgia.

Sara is also active in her community, having served on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Georgia Food Bank, Elder of First Presbyterian Church; president of the PTO of Oconee County Middle School; volunteer for the Jeanette Rankin foundation;  volunteer for Meals on Wheels, as well as many others.  She has been married to John McArthur for 23 years and they have 2 children.