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 1979 / Served to 1993

George Carley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

George Carley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1993 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carley authored 2,513 published opinions for the court (1979–1993), plus 90 dissents and 176 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance (141 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. 1,117 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
1980	Jones v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	274 S.E.2d 623	141
1981	Talley v. City Tank Corp.	279 S.E.2d 264	98
1980	Zeeman v. Black	273 S.E.2d 910	98
1991	Hunter v. State	413 S.E.2d 526	93
1988	Food Giant, Inc. v. Cooke	366 S.E.2d 781	76
1985	Bowers v. State	338 S.E.2d 457	71
1982	Telligman v. Monumental Properties, Inc.	288 S.E.2d 846	71
1980	Redd v. State	268 S.E.2d 423	71
1988	In the Interest of G. K. J.	370 S.E.2d 490	69
1983	Chadwick v. Miller	312 S.E.2d 835	68
1980	Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Pinyan	270 S.E.2d 883	65
1990	Warren v. State	397 S.E.2d 484	64
1990	Rolleston v. Huite	400 S.E.2d 349	61
1992	Kirkland v. State	424 S.E.2d 638	58
1990	Garrett v. State	397 S.E.2d 205	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,779 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 George Carley on?: George Carley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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14 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).