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 1999 / Active

M Yvette Miller

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

M Yvette Miller is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 532 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 19 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Wright v. Apartment Investment & Management Co. (45 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. 531 of these were attributed to Miller 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
2012	Wright v. Apartment Investment & Management Co.	726 S.E.2d 779	45
2013	Montgomery v. Bank of America· Dissent†	321 Ga. App. 343	41
2012	Canton Plaza, Inc. v. Regions Bank, Inc.†	315 Ga. App. 303	40
2012	Hays v. Georgia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.	722 S.E.2d 923	38
2014	Taylor v. State†	326 Ga. App. 27	32
2012	U. S. Bank, N.A. v. Phillips†	318 Ga. App. 819	27
2012	Davenport v. State†	316 Ga. App. 234	27
2015	9766, LLC v. Dwarf House, Inc.†	331 Ga. App. 287	26
2014	Cumberland Contractors, Inc. v. State Bank & Trust Co.†	327 Ga. App. 121	26
2013	Littlejohn v. State†	320 Ga. App. 197	26
2012	Johnson v. DeKalb County	726 S.E.2d 102	26
2013	Artson, LLC v. Hudson†	322 Ga. App. 859	25
2013	Ceasar v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.†	322 Ga. App. 529	25
2012	Isbell v. Credit Nation Lending Service, LLC†	319 Ga. App. 19	25
2012	Knight v. Roberts†	316 Ga. App. 599	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 566 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 is M Yvette Miller on?: M Yvette Miller is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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27 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).