Who is Judge Mathis?

Judge Mathis is an American retired judge from the Michigan 36th District court.

Along with the judge, he is also a lawyer, writer, actor, and producer, who is best known for her appearances in ‘Judge Jeanine Pirro’ in 2008, ‘Madea Goes to Jail’, and ‘CornerStore’ in 2011.

What is the birth name of Judge Mathis?

Judge Mathis was born on April 5, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

He is currently 61 years old and his birth name is Gregory Ellis Mathis.

His father’s name is Charles Mathis and his mother’s name is Alice Lee Mathis.

His father was a Detroit native and his mother was a devoted Seventh-day Adventist, nurse’s aide, and housekeeper. He was the fourth of four boys of his parents.

His parents got a divorce when Greg was a toddler and his mother brought him alone to Detroit during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s.

He shifted to Herman Garnes in 1964 and lived there till 1970 and then moved away from the housing complex in order to avoid rising drug use and rates of violent crime.

Judge Mathis was a former gang member as a teenager and his life turned around after he heard Jesse Jackson’s speech. Then, he became a lawyer.

Greg holds American citizenship but his ethnicity is African-American.

Education

With the help of a close family friend, he attended Eastern Michigan University and discovered his interest in politics there, and soon enough became a campus activist and worked for the Democratic Party.

He completed his Bachelor of Science in Public Administration degree from the Ypsilanti Campus and then joined the University of Detroit School of Law to study law and graduated with his Juris Doctor degree in 1987.