Marvin Arrington

Marvin Stephens Arrington Sr. was an American judge in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia and a politician in the city of Atlanta. Elected to the Atlanta Board of Aldermen in 1969, he served as President of the Atlanta City Council for 17 years until his unsuccessful bid for mayor in 1997. Arrington was one of the first two black students to undertake full-time studies at the Emory University School of Law in 1965. He served on the Emory Board of Trustees.