John Luke was born and raised in Jasper, Georgia. His roots run deep in the North Georgia Mountains – his family has lived in the area since the 1840s. After graduating from Pickens County High School, he attended Berry College where he graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Government. While at Berry he was the President of his graduating class, advisor to the Dean, and recipient of the Voice of Berry Award, which goes to the student who best advocates for student interests.

While attending law school at The University of Georgia, John Luke served on the Executive Board of the Mock Trial Team and served as the Closing Argument Coordinator. He also founded and served as President of the Rural Law Society, a group dedicated to bringing quality legal representation to rural Georgia. He also took part in the Law School’s Prosecution Clinic Program where he worked at the Cobb County Solicitor’s office prosecuting DUIs and other misdemeanors. John Luke furthered his clinical experience prosecuting felonies at the Athens-Clarke County District Attorney’s Office. In both Athens and Cobb he prosecuted cases to jury verdict, being the first person in his graduating class to go in front of a jury.

Since establishing the J.L. Weaver Law Firm in 2012 in a small-storage room in his uncle’s law office, John Luke has grown the practice to two locations in both Jasper and Canton. In the years since, Mr. Weaver has had the honor of defending clients against the power of the government, in all matter of criminal cases such as Murder, Vehicular Homicide, Rape, Child Molestation, Theft, RICO, Drug Offenses, Domestic Violence, D.U.I. and all Traffic Offenses.

It is John Luke’s core belief that people charged with the most heinous crimes deserve to have their rights under the constitution vigorously protected because if the government is unchecked to take the freedom of those accused with a crime, then what is going stop them from taking freedom from the rest of us?