List of justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)
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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:
Chief Justices
Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
---|---|---|
Joseph Henry Lumpkin | 1863 | 1867 |
Hiram B. Warner | 1867 1872 |
1868 1880 |
Joseph E. Brown | 1868 | 1870 |
Osborne Augustus Lochrane | 1871 | 1872 |
James Jackson | 1880 | 1887 |
Logan Edwin Bleckley | 1887 | 1894 |
Thomas Jefferson Simmons | 1894 | 1905 |
William Hansell Fish | 1905 | 1923 |
Richard Russell Sr. | 1923 | 1938 |
Charles Simpson Reid | 1938 | 1943 |
Robert Charles Bell | 1943 | 1946 |
William Franklin Jenkins | 1946 | 1948 |
William Henry Duckworth | 1948 | 1969 |
Bond Almand | 1969 | 1972 |
Carlton Mobley | 1972 | 1974 |
Benning Moore Grice | 1974 | 1975 |
Horace Elmo Nichols | 1975 | 1980 |
Hiram Keller Undercofler | 1980 | 1980 |
Robert Henry Jordan | 1980 | 1982 |
Harold Nelson Hill Jr. | 1982 | 1986 |
Thomas Oliver Marshall Jr. | 1986 | 1989 |
Harold G. Clarke | 1990 1992 |
1992 1994 |
Charles L. Weltner | 1992 | 1992 |
Willis B. Hunt Jr. | 1994 | 1995 |
Robert Benham | 1995 | 2001 |
Norman S. Fletcher | 2001 | 2005 |
Leah Ward Sears | 2005 | 2009 |
Carol W. Hunstein | 2009 2012 |
2012 2013 |
George H. Carley | 2012 | 2012 |
Hugh P. Thompson | 2013 | 2016 |
P. Harris Hines | 2017 | 2018 |
Harold Melton[1] | 2018 | incumbent |
Associate Justices
Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
---|---|---|
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet | 1845 | 1853 |
Joseph Henry Lumpkin | 1845 | 1863 |
Hiram B. Warner | 1845 1868 |
1865 1872 |
Ebenezer A. Starnes | 1853 | 1855 |
Henry L. Benning | 1853 | 1859 |
Charles James McDonald | 1855 | 1859 |
Linton Stephens | 1859 | 1860 |
Richard F. Lyon | 1859 | 1865 |
Charles J. Jenkins | 1860 | 1866 |
Iverson Louis Harris | 1866 | 1868 |
Dawson Armstrong Walker | 1866 | 1868 |
Henry Kent McCay | 1868 | 1875 |
William Watts Montgomery | 1872 | 1873 |
Robert Pleasant Trippe | 1873 | 1875 |
Logan Edwin Bleckley | 1875 | 1880 |
James Jackson | 1875 | 1880 |
Willis Alston Hawkins | 1880 | 1880 |
Alexander Middleton Speer | 1880 | 1882 |
Martin Jenkins Crawford | 1880 | 1883 |
Samuel Hall | 1882 | 1887 |
Mark Harden Blandford | 1883 | 1890 |
Thomas Jefferson Simmons | 1887 | 1894 |
Samuel Lumpkin | 1891 | 1903 |
Spencer Roane Atkinson | 1894 | 1897 |
Henry Thomas Lewis | 1897 | 1902 |
William Augustus Little | 1897 | 1903 |
William Hansell Fish | 1897 | 1905 |
Andrew Jackson Cobb | 1897 | 1907 |
Samuel Barnard Adams | 1902 | 1902 |
John S. Candler | 1902 | 1906 |
Henry Gray Turner | 1903 | 1904 |
Joseph Rucker Lamar | 1903 | 1905 |
Beverly Daniel Evans Jr. | 1904 | 1917 |
Joseph Henry Lumpkin, II | 1905 | 1916 |
Marcus Wayland Beck | 1905 | 1937 |
Samuel Carter Atkinson | 1906 | 1942 |
Horace Moore Holden | 1907 | 1911 |
Hiram Warner Hill | 1911 | 1934 |
S. Price Gilbert | 1916 | 1936 |
Walter F. George | 1917 | 1922 |
James Kollock Hines | 1922 | 1932 |
Robert Charles Bell | 1932 1946 |
1938 1949 |
John Belgium Hutcheson | 1934 | 1938 |
William Franklin Jenkins | 1936 | 1948 |
Warren Grice | 1937 | 1945 |
William Henry Duckworth | 1938 | 1948 |
Samuel Dunbar Hewlett | 1942 | 1942 |
William Yates Atkinson | 1943 | 1953 |
Lee Buren Wyatt | 1943 | 1960 |
Thomas Grady Head | 1945 | 1965 |
Thomas S. Candler | 1945 | 1966 |
L. C. Groves | 1948 | 1948 |
John Harold Hawkins | 1949 | 1960 |
Bond Almand | 1949 | 1969 |
Charles William Worrill | 1953 | 1954 |
Homer Sutton | 1954 | 1954 |
Carlton Mobley | 1954 | 1972 |
Joseph Dillard Quillian | 1960 | 1966 |
Benning Moore Grice | 1960 | 1974 |
Julian Eugene Cook | 1965 | 1967 |
Horace Elmo Nichols | 1966 1980 |
1975 1980 |
John Eccleston Frankum | 1967 | 1970 |
Hiram Keller Undercofler | 1967 1980 |
1980 1981 |
Jule Wimberly Felton | 1969 | 1972 |
Peyton Hawes | 1970 | 1973 |
William Barrett Gunter | 1972 | 1977 |
Robert Henry Jordan | 1972 | 1980 |
George Conley Ingram | 1973 | 1977 |
Robert Howell Hall | 1974 | 1979 |
Harold Nelson Hill Jr. | 1975 | 1982 |
Jesse Groover Bowles | 1977 | 1981 |
Thomas Oliver Marshall Jr. | 1977 | 1986 |
Harold G. Clarke | 1979 | 1989 |
Hardy Gregory Jr. | 1981 | 1989 |
George T. Smith | 1981 | 1991 |
Charles L. Weltner | 1981 | 1992 |
Richard Bell | 1982 | 1992 |
Willis B. Hunt Jr. | 1986 | 1994 |
Robert Benham | 1990 2001 |
1995 (incumbent) |
Norman S. Fletcher | 1990 | 2001 |
Carol W. Hunstein | 1992 2013 |
2009 (incumbent) |
Leah Ward Sears | 1992 | 2009 |
George H. Carley | 1993 | 2012 |
Hugh P. Thompson | 1994 | 2013 |
P. Harris Hines | 1995 | 2016 |
Harold Melton | 2005 | 2018 |
David E. Nahmias | 2009 | (incumbent) |
Keith R. Blackwell | 2012 | (incumbent) |
Michael P. Boggs | 2017 | (incumbent) |
Nels S.D. Peterson | 2017 | (incumbent) |
Britt C. Grant | 2017 | 2018 |
Sarah Hawkins Warren[2] | 2018 | (incumbent) |
References
- ^ "9/4/18 - NEW CHIEF JUSTICE OF GEORGIA SUPREME COURT". Supreme Court of Georgia. Retrieved 2018-09-05.
- ^ "Sarah Hawkins Warren Named to Georgia Supreme Court | Daily Report". Daily Report. Retrieved 2018-09-21.