A state intermediate appellate court / Established 1917

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Atlanta · An intermediate appellate court in Georgia.

The Court of Appeals of Georgia is an intermediate appellate court in Georgia, the tier between the state's trial courts and the Supreme Court of Georgia. Its judges are chosen by nonpartisan election, the same method Georgia uses for its court of last resort. This page lists every judge to serve on the court, current and former.

Judges in history

Currently serving

Nonpartisan

Selection

6-yr

Term

Current judges

Judge	Since
Charles W. Worrill	1949
George T. Smith	1976
Harold Banke	1997
Anne Elizabeth Barnes	1999
John J. Ellington	1999
M Yvette Miller	1999
Herbert E. Phipps	1999
Sara Doyle	2009
Stephen Louis A. Dillard	2010
Christopher McFadden	2011
Michael P. Boggs	2012
Elizabeth Lee Branch	2012
William McCrary Ray II	2012
Carla McMillian	2013

Former judges

Judge	Years
Keith R. Blackwell	2010–2012
Debra Bernes	2005–2010
A Harris Adams	2002–2013
Charles B. Mikell	2000–2012
Yvette Miller	1999–2011
Frank M. Eldridge	1996–2004
John H. Ruffin Jr.	1994–2008
G Alan Blackburn	1993–2010
Jd Smith	1993–2011
Edward H. Johnson	1992–2010
Gary Andrews	1991–1998
Clarence Cooper	1990–1994
Dorothy Toth Beasley	1984–1999
Robert Benham	1984–1989
Marion T. Pope Jr.	1981–2002
John Woodward Sognier	1980–1992
George Carley	1979–1993
Norman L. Underwood	1979–1979
Aw Birdsong Jr.	1977–1998
Arnold Shulman	1977–1984
William Leroy McMurray Jr.	1976–2000
Thomas O. Marshall	1974–1977
Julian Webb	1974–1979
H Sol Clark	1972–1977
Irwin W. Stolz Jr.	1972–1977
Randall Evans Jr.	1969–1976
George Stanley Joslin	1967–1967
George Price Whitman	1967–1991
J Kelley Quillian	1966–1984
Braswell D. Deen Jr.	1965–1990
Charles Adams Pannell	1963–1976
Robert Lee Russell Jr.	1962–1965
William Vance Custer Jr.	1961–1962
Homer Christian Eberhardt	1961–1974
Robert Howell Hall	1961–1974
John Sammons Bell	1960–1979
John Eccleston Frankum	1960–1967
Robert Henry Jordan	1960–1972
Horace Elmo Nichols	1954–1966
Joseph D. Quillian	1953–1960
Ira Carlisle	1952–1963
John Murphy Clagett Townsend	1947–1961
David Monroe Parker	1944–1949
Bernard Clay Gardner Sr.	1940–1960
Jule Wimberly Felton Sr.	1937–1969
John Benjamin Guerry	1933–1940
Hugh James MacIntyre	1932–1952
I Homer Sutton	1932–1954
Reason Chesnutt Bell	1922–1932
Benjamin Harvey Hill	1920–1922
Charles Whitefoord Smith	1919–1920
Alexander William Stephens	1918–1943
Frank Harwell	1917–1918
William Franklin Jenkins	1917–1937
Roscoe Luke	1917–1932

How a judge reaches this court. Judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia are chosen in nonpartisan elections to 6-year terms. Selection methods vary by jurisdiction and have changed over time; this page reflects the court’s current method (source: National Center for State Courts). Open any judge to see their tenure and whom they succeeded.

Source: CourtListener / Free Law Project (bulk data); selection method from the National Center for State Courts. Data last verified 2026-06-30. Verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).