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Date: 12 Mar 2005 12:55:01 -0700

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BRANDAU Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JeB.2ACI/723 Message Board Post: Send condolences: • Sign guestbook for Julie Ann Brandau http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/noadsindex/courthouseshooting.html COURT REPORTER Brandau blended her job, cooking skills By ROSALIND BENTLEY, MAE GENTRY The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/12/05 It didn't matter how tired she was, if a jury trial was in progress, Julie Ann Brandau would come home and bake something for the jury, something rich and sweet. She enjoyed baking so much that Fulton County Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes praised her in a letter to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Every day of every trial, she creates something special for our jurors," Barnes wrote in July 2002, when he nominated his court reporter for a Food Section profile. "The staff and I are sometimes jealous of her attentions to the jury and lament the usual lack of leftovers." The 46-year-old court reporter was killed Friday during the rampage in downtown Atlanta. With the passion she also had for decorating, gardening and her golden retriever, Heidi, Brandau was the sort of person Martha Stewart might have gotten along with, said Brandau's best friend, DeAnn Nunnally. Not that she wasn't passionate about being a court reporter. But when she got the opportunity to blend work and food, she did. "She can come home after a long day and stay up until midnight baking a pound cake or something for the jury," Nunnally said between sobs. A little more than a year ago, Brandau moved into a subdivision of brick homes and manicured lawns in Snellville. According to Gwinnett County court records, she and her husband, Andreas Scholte, divorced in 1999. Her daughter, Christina Elise Scholte, is a freshman at Auburn University. The mother and daughter loved to travel, venturing to Hawaii and Costa Rica over the years. On Friday, Christina Scholte's father drove to the campus to pick up his child and bring her to Atlanta, said Nunnally, who had spoken to them by phone as they were driving back. About 10 years ago, Brandau's mother died of cancer, Nunnally said. A few years later, one of her sisters also died from the disease. Another sister, who now lives in Costa Rica, was to move in with Brandau in June, Nunnally said. A native of Moncks Corner, S.C., Brandau was the youngest of the three girls. Brandau's neighbors were shocked by her death. "I saw her go to work this morning," Joyce Lloyd said. "She leaves at about 7 o'clock, and I leave about 7 to go for my walk, and I saw her in her blue BMW." Bob Lloyd, a retired engineer, said he helped Brandau three times — when her basement flooded, when the pilot light went out and when a tree was down. His wife said Brandau often repaid their favors with gift cards. They had a hard time believing she was gone. "I'm just so shocked," Joyce Lloyd said. "I just keep seeing Julie out in the yard playing with the dog." Links referenced within this article ajc.com http://www.ajc.com/ Metro http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/index.html Atlanta http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/index.html ROSALIND BENTLEY mailto: MAE GENTRY mailto: Find this article at: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/noads/0305/12courtbrandau.html

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