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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1994 / Served to 2008

John H. Ruffin Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

John H. Ruffin Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1994–2008 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Morehouse College
Howard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ruffin authored 2,035 published opinions for the court (1994–2008), plus 41 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: In the Interest of V. M. T. (88 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. 585 of these were attributed to Ruffin 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
2000	In the Interest of V. M. T.†	243 Ga. App. 732	88
1999	Buice v. State	520 S.E.2d 258	83
1997	Carlock v. Kmart Corp.	489 S.E.2d 99	72
2000	Dennard v. State	534 S.E.2d 182	71
1997	Lester v. State	487 S.E.2d 25	69
1999	Parrish v. State	514 S.E.2d 458	68
1999	Todd v. State†	236 Ga. App. 757	63
1996	Strickland v. State	479 S.E.2d 125	62
1998	Maddox v. Southern Engineering Co.	500 S.E.2d 591	61
1998	McKay v. State	507 S.E.2d 484	60
1998	In the Interest of C. L. R.†	232 Ga. App. 134	59
2001	In the Interest of M. L. C.†	249 Ga. App. 435	54
2001	Paul v. Destito	550 S.E.2d 739	53
1999	J. H. Harvey Co. v. Reddick	522 S.E.2d 749	52
1998	In the Interest of A. H. P.	500 S.E.2d 418	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,144 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 John H. Ruffin Jr. on?: John H. Ruffin Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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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).