Lisa Godbey Wood is a District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. She was confirmed as a District Judge in 2007 and served as Chief Judge from 2010 until May of 2017. She served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia from 2004-2007. Prior to that time, she tried cases for fourteen years.
She began her law career as a law clerk to United States District Court Judge Anthony A. Alaimo. She is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and serves on the Board of Visitorsfor the University of Georgia School of Law. She also serves on the University of Georgia Athletic Board.
She is a 1990 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law. She served as Chief Judge of the Honor Court, Managing Editor of the Georgia Law Review and won the Isaac Meinhard Award for maintaining the highest academic average throughout all three years of law school. She was also First Honor Graduate of the University of Georgia as an undergraduate in 1985.