Judge Hensley grew up a child of divorced parents. As the county’s juvenile office attorney and later in the adoption field, he litigated severe child abuse and neglect cases for over a decade.  As a guardian ad litem, he represented hundreds of children in contested custody cases, child abuse and neglect cases, guardianships, and adoptions.  Consequently, the “best interests of the child” concept has a very personal meaning to him.  Juvenile work has been Judge Hensley’s passion for years, and during his time as an attorney he represented parents adopting over 1,000 children. He jumped at the opportunity to continue that work on the bench, and in 2019 took on additional duties as the Presiding Juvenile Court Judge. Since that time he has witnessed the implementation of the Jasper County CASA program into the juvenile court proceedings.