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Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1973 / Served to 1977

G Conley Ingram

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

G Conley Ingram was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1973. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1973–1977 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1973	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ingram authored 318 published opinions for the court (1973–1977), plus 65 dissents and 36 concurrences. Most cited: Bethay v. State (290 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. 169 of these were attributed to Ingram 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
1976	Bethay v. State	229 S.E.2d 406	290
1974	Hicks v. State	207 S.E.2d 30	261
1974	Pitts v. Glass	203 S.E.2d 515	206
1973	Summer-Minter & Associates, Inc. v. Giordano	203 S.E.2d 173	194
1974	Gregg v. State· Concurrence†	210 S.E.2d 659	190
1977	Hamilton v. State· Dissent†	235 S.E.2d 515	179
1976	Pulliam v. State	224 S.E.2d 8	156
1974	City Dodge, Inc. v. Gardner	208 S.E.2d 794	140
1976	Riley v. State	226 S.E.2d 922	135
1977	Thornton v. State· Concurrence†	231 S.E.2d 729	125
1974	Floyd v. State	210 S.E.2d 810	124
1976	Watkins v. State	229 S.E.2d 465	117
1976	Harris v. State· Concurrence†	230 S.E.2d 1	116
1975	Shy v. State	218 S.E.2d 599	106
1976	Sanchez v. Walker County Department of Family & Children Services	229 S.E.2d 66	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 419 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 G Conley Ingram on?: G Conley Ingram was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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4 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).