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This is a list of the justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia: Justices. Judge Began active service
The Supreme Court of Georgia is located at the Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta. The Supreme Court of Georgia is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia. The court was established in 1845 as a three-member panel, increased in number to six, then to seven in 1945, and finally to nine in 2017. [1]
Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The highest judiciary power in Georgia is the Supreme Court, which is composed of nine justices. [11] The state also has a Court of Appeals made of 15 judges. [ 11 ] Georgia is divided into 49 judicial circuits, each of which has a Superior Court consisting of local citizens numbering between two and 19 members depending on the circuit population.
Justices Stephen Dillard, Ken Hodges, Benjamin Land, Amanda Mercier, Brian Rickman, and Jeffrey Watkins were unopposed for re-election. Since 1896, justices on the Supreme Court and judges on the Court of Appeals have been directly elected in statewide elections. Judicial elections were made non-partisan in 1983. Elections for nonpartisan state ...
Leah Ward Sears (née Leah Jeanette Sears; [1] born June 13, 1955) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.Sears was the first African-American female chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. [2]
The list is divided into separate lists for each position in the Supreme Court. Each justice is permitted to have three or four law clerks per Court term. Most clerks are recent law school graduates, who have typically graduated at the top of their class and spent at least one year clerking for a lower federal judge.
First female (Georgia Court of Appeals): Dorothy Beasley (1969) in 1984 [16] First female (temporary judge; Georgia Supreme Court): Dorothy Robinson in 1985 [13] [14] First African American female (superior court): Leah Ward Sears (1980) in 1988 [17] First African American female (Chief Presiding Judge of a Georgia court): Glenda Hatchett (1977 ...