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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1965 / Served to 1967

J Eugene Cook

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

J Eugene Cook was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1904 · age 122
Tenure: 1965–1967 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Cook authored 89 published opinions for the court (1965–1967), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Bowers v. Fulton County (126 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. 28 of these were attributed to Cook 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
1966	Bowers v. Fulton County· Dissent†	146 S.E.2d 884	126
1966	Moore v. State	146 S.E.2d 895	74
1966	Davis v. Davis	151 S.E.2d 123	54
1966	Nelson v. Southern Guaranty Insurance	147 S.E.2d 424	37
1966	Brissette v. Munday	149 S.E.2d 110	36
1967	Irvin v. Oliver	154 S.E.2d 217	31
1966	City of Calhoun v. Holland	152 S.E.2d 752	30
1966	Massey v. State	149 S.E.2d 118	24
1966	Braselton Bros. v. Better Maid Dairy Products, Inc.	150 S.E.2d 620	21
1966	Slowik v. Knorr	151 S.E.2d 726	20
1967	Hunnicutt v. Sandison	154 S.E.2d 587	18
1966	Jolles v. Holiday Builders, Inc.	149 S.E.2d 814	17
1966	Bostick v. Usry	146 S.E.2d 882	16
1966	Micheli v. State	149 S.E.2d 803	15
1966	Piedmont Cotton Mills, Inc. v. General Warehouse No. Two, Inc.	149 S.E.2d 72	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 90 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 J Eugene Cook on?: J Eugene Cook was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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2 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).