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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">Gregory Ellis Mathis</a> was Born on April 5, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan. He is a retired judge of the 36th District Court in Michigan, and the host of the TV program bringing his own name, “Judge Mathis”.

Mathis was the fourth of four boys born from Charles Mathis and Alice Lee Mathis. He joined a gang in Detroit when he was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">teenager</a>, and at the age of 17, he was convicted for carrying a gun and marijuana on him. He then spent 9 months in prison waiting for the trail, and he later pleaded guilty to lesser the charges on him. He’s been lucky, and the judge gave him a second, ordering his release despite it wasn't the first time he had been arrested and charged. In fact, because of his affiliation to a gang, Mathis had been brought to jail multiple times previously.

At this point of his life, he received humiliations and disgust from almost everyone, including his mother, who was also diagnosed with cancer. Overwhelmed by the situation, and thankful for having had a second chance in life, Mathis realized that he should have step up, and make his sick mother happy.

When he came out of street and jail, Mathis started working at a McDonald’s, even because he needed to keep a job in order to maintain his release on probation. Thanks to some help from a family friend, Mathis was able to enroll in the “Eastern Michigan University”. Mathis maturated a strong interest in politics and public administration, becoming a campus activist, and starting working for the Democrat Party. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Public Administration. He received his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor">Juris Doctor</a> from the “University of Detroit Mercy” in 1987, but, after failing the Michigan bar exam on his first attempt, he was initially denied a license to practice law for several years because of his turbulent past.

Mathis had a strong interest in politics, and he became an assistant to Clyde Cleveland, a city council member. In 1988 Mathis was appointed head of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson">Jesse Jackson</a>'s Presidential campaign in the state of Michigan. Then Mathis became the head of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Young">Mayor</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Young">Coleman Young</a>'s re-election campaign, and after his victory, he’s been appointed to run the city's east side city hall.

In 1995 Mathis has been elected a district court judge, becoming the younger person in charge in that role. He continued to be involved in politics, even after reaching national popularity thanks to the successful syndicated judge show he hosts since 1999, and currently in its 19th season, also proudly being the second longest running courtroom show.

In the show, he is known for asking small to small information from the defendants and critically give his decision. His speech on his show always are inspiring. Few people realize that he was once a convicted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">criminal</a>, and nowadays he is an inspiration to millions. Mathis is determined to keep the young man of his country out of prison, and to solve as many as small disputes plus claims as possible from his show.

He thinks that he was able to defeat his past life, and he feels the responsibility of using himself as an example for the other people, so they know that changing your path, and become a completely different person is possible.

Mathis co-wrote with Zane a novel called “Street Judge” in 2008. Its content is somehow autobiographic, since it’s based on the life of a judge who solves murders. Mathis also wrote a book titled “Of Being a Judge to Criminals and Such” that became a bestseller.

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Talking about his private life and relationship status, he has been married to his wife Linda Reese , a fellow Eastern Michigan University student, and a weighty beauty, since 1985. Linda met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">Greg</a> when he was in one of the lowest points of his life, but she backed him when he struggling to get rid of his criminal background, and when he was working several jobs to pay for his studies after his mother’s death. The couple has four children.

In an interview, he was asked the tricky question "How his long relationship did just not became vanilla all the time?"  Being a judge, he humbly answered "You have to change direction every now and then in different days", and he later explained that, being a judge, he would give such an answer instead of saying they like to get kinky sometimes. How Amusing!

Epitome of self-determination and actualization, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">Gregg Mathis</a> (net worth – 20 million US dollars) has been working in the field of equal justice since he joined his college (led free South America and voter registration campaign on campus).

Fast forwarding to 2015, beside his television credentials, we known him as the Chairman of PUSH  (initially joined as a member advocate of equal justice), a board-member of the NAACP and the Morehouse School of Medicine, and the founder of the non-profit organization “Young Adults Asserting Themselves”, an agency whose vision is to provide career, business start-up, and job opportunities, as well as job training and college enrollment assistance to youth.

Award winning Judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Mathis">Greg</a> is a prison-reform activist as well. He says that the prison isn’t doing any good to the country, as it's just raising more criminal. He thinks that the current system should be replaced with a more rehabilitation oriented exist strategy. He says that $50,000 were spent on him by the state when he was in jail, and that he completed his graduation after being released for around $25,000. Mathis is firmly convinced that the government should try to give prisoners incentives to acquire education inside the jail.

To honor him, a street in the area in which the judge grew up in has been named “Mathis Avenue” in Detroit.

His fans can follow the Judge on his Twitter profile, where he has 78.9 k followers. He also has an Instagram profile, where he has 55.7 k followers. His Twitter handle is @JudgeGregMathis, and he introduces himself in the Twitter description as: "Judge Mathis' life story of a street youth who rose from jail to Judge has provided hope to millions who watch him on the Judge Mathis Show each day.”

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