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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1992 / Served to 2013

Carol W. Hunstein

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Carol W. Hunstein was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1992–2013 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Stetson University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunstein authored 900 published opinions for the court (1993–2013), plus 142 dissents and 77 concurrences. Most cited: Robinson v. Kroger Co. (568 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. 433 of these were attributed to Hunstein 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
1997	Robinson v. Kroger Co.· Concurrence†	493 S.E.2d 403	568
2011	State v. Kelly	718 S.E.2d 232	546
1994	Vansant v. State· Dissent†	264 Ga. 319	478
2010	Cowart v. Widener· Concurrence†	697 S.E.2d 779	430
2012	Neal v. State· Concurrence†	722 S.E.2d 765	374
2010	Wesley v. State	689 S.E.2d 280	208
2004	Rankin v. State	606 S.E.2d 269	207
2008	Garza v. State	670 S.E.2d 73	192
1994	Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc.	264 Ga. 732	184
2010	State v. Jackson· Dissent†	697 S.E.2d 757	177
1995	Bright v. State· Dissent†	265 Ga. 265	143
1993	City of Rome v. Jordan· Concurrence†	426 S.E.2d 861	142
1995	Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo	458 S.E.2d 623	135
1994	Edwards v. State· Concurrence†	264 Ga. 131	135
2001	Clark v. Wade· Concurrence†	544 S.E.2d 99	131

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,119 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 Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Carol W. Hunstein on?: Carol W. Hunstein was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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