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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1966 / Served to 1984

J Kelley Quillian

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

J Kelley Quillian was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1966. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1986
Tenure: 1966–1984 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1966	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Piedmont College
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Quillian authored 2,194 published opinions for the court (1966–1984), plus 58 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Walker v. State (108 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. 958 of these were attributed to Quillian 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
1978	Walker v. State	246 S.E.2d 206	108
1978	Radowick v. State	244 S.E.2d 346	97
1979	Church's Fried Chicken, Inc. v. Lewis	256 S.E.2d 916	92
1981	King v. Seitzingers, Inc.	287 S.E.2d 252	80
1980	MacDonald v. MacDonald	275 S.E.2d 142	80
1975	Childs v. Catlin	216 S.E.2d 360	77
1978	Central State Hospital v. James	248 S.E.2d 678	76
1977	Johnson v. State· Dissent†	235 S.E.2d 550	68
1976	Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. v. Hardy	226 S.E.2d 142	66
1970	Fowler v. State	172 S.E.2d 447	61
1982	Amear v. Hall	296 S.E.2d 611	58
1984	Begin v. Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc.	322 S.E.2d 737	51
1979	Johnson v. State	252 S.E.2d 205	51
1978	Bone Construction Co. v. Lewis	250 S.E.2d 851	51
1975	Sta-Power Industries, Inc. v. Avant	216 S.E.2d 897	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,272 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 J Kelley Quillian on?: J Kelley Quillian was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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18 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).