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 1981 / Served to 2002

Marion T. Pope Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Marion T. Pope Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1927 · age 99
Tenure: 1981–2002 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Georgia
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Pope authored 3,009 published opinions for the court (1981–2010), plus 99 dissents and 151 concurrences. Most cited: Balkcom v. State (158 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. 1,264 of these were attributed to Pope 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
1997	Balkcom v. State· Concurrence†	489 S.E.2d 129	158
2000	Suarez v. Halbert	543 S.E.2d 733	124
1995	Reese v. State· Concurrence†	216 Ga. App. 773	102
1994	Herring v. Dunning· Dissent†	446 S.E.2d 199	97
1981	Melton v. LaCalamito	282 S.E.2d 393	80
1988	Whitaker v. Zirkle	374 S.E.2d 106	74
1987	Tarwid v. State	363 S.E.2d 63	73
2010	Coleman v. State	700 S.E.2d 668	68
1983	Chadwick v. Miller· Concurrence†	312 S.E.2d 835	68
1996	Strickland v. State· Concurrence†	479 S.E.2d 125	62
1983	Castillo v. State	305 S.E.2d 629	62
1982	Murphy v. Ara Services, Inc.†	164 Ga. App. 859	62
1983	Hamilton v. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy	306 S.E.2d 340	61
2010	Mauer v. Parker Fibernet, LLC	701 S.E.2d 599	58
1988	State v. Oliver	372 S.E.2d 256	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,259 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 Marion T. Pope Jr. on?: Marion T. Pope Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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21 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).