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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 2011 / Active

Christopher McFadden

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Christopher McFadden is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Oglethorpe University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, McFadden authored 794 published opinions for the court (2011–2019), plus 54 dissents and 73 concurrences. Most cited: Perlman v. Perlman (222 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. 791 of these were attributed to McFadden 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
2012	Perlman v. Perlman†	318 Ga. App. 731	222
2012	Booker v. Georgia Department of Human Resources†	317 Ga. App. 426	66
2013	Murphy v. Murphy†	322 Ga. App. 829	52
2014	Kilgore v. State†	325 Ga. App. 874	40
2012	Home Depot U. S. A., Inc. v. Wabash National Corp.· Concurrence†	724 S.E.2d 53	37
2012	Secured Realty Investment, Inc. v. Bank of North Georgia	725 S.E.2d 336	36
2013	Lacy v. Lacy†	320 Ga. App. 739	31
2011	Kensington Partners, LLC v. Beal Bank Nevada	715 S.E.2d 491	28
2014	Diamond v. Department of Transportation†	326 Ga. App. 189	27
2013	Morris v. State†	322 Ga. App. 682	27
2015	Jackson v. Sanders· Concurrence†	333 Ga. App. 544	26
2013	Jordan v. State†	322 Ga. App. 252	25
2016	Quiller v. the State· Dissent†	338 Ga. App. 206	24
2014	Lagroon v. Lawson†	328 Ga. App. 614	22
2011	In the Interest of D. T. A.†	312 Ga. App. 26	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 921 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 is Christopher McFadden on?: Christopher McFadden is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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15 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).