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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1993 / Served to 2012

George H. Carley

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

George H. Carley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1938 · age 88
Tenure: 1993–2012 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Carley authored 932 published opinions for the court (1993–2012), plus 185 dissents and 155 concurrences. Most cited: Malcolm v. State (1,049 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. 475 of these were attributed to Carley 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
1993	Malcolm v. State	434 S.E.2d 479	1,049
1995	Rowland v. State· Concurrence†	264 Ga. 872	927
1994	Tate v. State· Dissent†	264 Ga. 53	397
1996	Bailey v. Bailey· Concurrence†	471 S.E.2d 213	388
2012	Neal v. State	722 S.E.2d 765	374
2009	Vega v. State	673 S.E.2d 223	340
2002	City of Gainesville v. Dodd· Dissent†	573 S.E.2d 369	257
1996	Saxton v. Coastal Dialysis & Medical Clinic, Inc.	476 S.E.2d 587	219
2008	Garza v. State· Dissent†	670 S.E.2d 73	192
1994	Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc.· Concurrence†	264 Ga. 732	184
1996	Atlanta Independent School System v. Lane	469 S.E.2d 22	176
2002	Pfeiffer v. Georgia Department of Transportation· Dissent†	573 S.E.2d 389	171
1998	Woodard v. State· Dissent†	496 S.E.2d 896	165
2003	Northwest Social and Civic Club, Inc. v. Franklin	583 S.E.2d 858	144
1995	Bright v. State· Concurrence†	265 Ga. 265	143

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,273 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 George H. Carley on?: George H. Carley was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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19 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).