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 1993 / Served to 2010

G Alan Blackburn

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

G Alan Blackburn was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1993–2010 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Blackburn authored 2,881 published opinions for the court (1993–2010), plus 63 dissents and 125 concurrences. Most cited: Short v. State (469 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. 942 of these were attributed to Blackburn 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
1998	Short v. State	507 S.E.2d 514	469
1997	In the Interest of R. N.	480 S.E.2d 243	153
1998	Rubin v. Cello Corp.	510 S.E.2d 541	117
1997	In the Interest of K. J.	486 S.E.2d 899	80
2005	Davis v. State	621 S.E.2d 818	67
1994	In the Interest of D. I. W.	215 Ga. App. 644	66
1997	In the Interest of v. S.	495 S.E.2d 142	60
2005	In the Interest of C. R. G.†	272 Ga. App. 161	58
1994	General Motors Corp. v. Moseley	213 Ga. App. 875	58
2010	Resource Life Insurance Co. v. Buckner	698 S.E.2d 19	54
1995	In the Interest of A. M. B.	464 S.E.2d 253	54
2010	Martinez v. State	702 S.E.2d 747	53
2008	DeGolyer v. Green Tree Servicing, LLC	662 S.E.2d 141	52
1998	Straughter v. J. H. Harvey Company, Inc.	500 S.E.2d 353	52
1997	Kovacs v. State	490 S.E.2d 539	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,069 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 G Alan Blackburn on?: G Alan Blackburn was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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17 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).