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 1990 / Served to 1994

Clarence Cooper

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Clarence Cooper was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1942 · age 84
Tenure: 1990–1994 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Clark College
Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cooper authored 293 published opinions for the court (1990–1994), plus 20 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Hill v. State (228 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. 324 of these were attributed to Cooper 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
1992	Hill v. State†	204 Ga. App. 582	228
1991	Jones v. State· Dissent†	408 S.E.2d 823	42
1992	Jones v. Lamon· Dissent†	426 S.E.2d 657	33
1994	Patterson v. Lauderback· Concurrence†	440 S.E.2d 673	30
1992	Jefferson-Pilot Communications Co. v. Phoenix City Broadcasting, Ltd.· Dissent†	421 S.E.2d 295	28
1991	O'DONNELL v. State· Dissent†	409 S.E.2d 579	28
1992	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Guest†	417 S.E.2d 419	26
1993	Kelly v. State· Dissent†	434 S.E.2d 743	22
1993	Young v. Rider†	430 S.E.2d 117	22
1994	Logan v. State· Concurrence†	442 S.E.2d 883	20
1993	Vitner v. Miller†	430 S.E.2d 671	19
1993	Reid v. State†	437 S.E.2d 646	18
1990	Calhoun v. Tapley· Dissent†	395 S.E.2d 848	17
1990	Lamb v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.†	392 S.E.2d 307	16
1991	Balest v. Simmons· Concurrence†	411 S.E.2d 576	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 324 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 Clarence Cooper on?: Clarence Cooper was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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4 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).