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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1981 / Served to 1989

Hardy Gregory Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Hardy Gregory Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1981–1989 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Gregory authored 470 published opinions for the court (1981–1989), plus 51 dissents and 46 concurrences. Most cited: Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. (517 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. 185 of these were attributed to Gregory 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
1986	Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc.	343 S.E.2d 680	517
1982	Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner	296 S.E.2d 693	320
1982	Harper v. State	292 S.E.2d 389	229
1986	Pope v. State	345 S.E.2d 831	182
1985	Cuzzort v. State	334 S.E.2d 661	181
1986	Milam v. State· Dissent†	341 S.E.2d 216	180
1987	Gamble v. State	357 S.E.2d 792	179
1988	Jones v. State	363 S.E.2d 529	169
1981	Waters v. State	283 S.E.2d 238	163
1982	Blackburn v. Blackburn	292 S.E.2d 821	162
1983	Conner v. State	303 S.E.2d 266	147
1988	Polito v. Holland	365 S.E.2d 273	129
1982	Stanley v. State	295 S.E.2d 315	118
1983	Hudson v. State	299 S.E.2d 531	114
1988	Bosma v. Gunter	373 S.E.2d 368	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 567 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 Hardy Gregory Jr. on?: Hardy Gregory Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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8 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).