How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 2002 / Served to 2013

A Harris Adams

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

A Harris Adams was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2013 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Adams authored 1,014 published opinions for the court (2003–2012), plus 11 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. State (79 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 273 of these were attributed to Adams by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2008	Jones v. State	659 S.E.2d 875	79
2007	Kaiser v. State	646 S.E.2d 84	54
2004	In the Interest of J. T. W.†	270 Ga. App. 26	47
2006	Black v. State· Dissent†	635 S.E.2d 568	44
2009	Moore v. Moore-McKinney	678 S.E.2d 152	43
2003	TGM Ashley Lakes, Inc. v. Jennings	590 S.E.2d 807	43
2009	Triad Health Management of Georgia, III, LLC v. Johnson	679 S.E.2d 785	41
2006	Abernathy v. State	630 S.E.2d 421	40
2005	In the Interest of K. N.†	272 Ga. App. 45	40
2003	Reed v. DeKalb County	589 S.E.2d 584	40
2007	Kay-Lex Co. v. Essex Insurance	649 S.E.2d 602	38
2004	In the Interest of T. P.†	270 Ga. App. 700	38
2009	Chandler v. OPENSIDED MRI OF ATLANTA, LLC	682 S.E.2d 165	37
2009	Vines v. State	675 S.E.2d 260	37
2010	Gish v. Thomas	691 S.E.2d 900	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,044 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was A Harris Adams on?: A Harris Adams was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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10 years on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).