How do judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1995 / Former Justice

P. Harris Hines

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

P. Harris Hines was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hines authored 930 published opinions for the court (1926–2018), plus 41 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Kelly (546 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. 383 of these were attributed to Hines 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
2011	State v. Kelly· Concurrence†	718 S.E.2d 232	546
2003	Robinson v. State	586 S.E.2d 313	421
1996	Bailey v. Bailey	471 S.E.2d 213	388
2002	City of Gainesville v. Dodd	573 S.E.2d 369	257
2007	Schofield v. Holsey	642 S.E.2d 56	192
2013	Hayes v. State†	292 Ga. 506	135
2012	Scott v. State	725 S.E.2d 305	130
1996	Burgeson v. State	475 S.E.2d 580	126
1997	Sturbridge Partners, Ltd. v. Walker	482 S.E.2d 339	113
2016	Rivera v. Washington†	298 Ga. 770	110
1997	Waldrip v. State	482 S.E.2d 299	109
2006	Benton v. Benton	629 S.E.2d 204	104
2001	Butler v. State	541 S.E.2d 653	102
2015	Williams v. State†	296 Ga. 817	91
2009	Arrington v. State	687 S.E.2d 438	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 989 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 P. Harris Hines on?: P. Harris Hines was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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31 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).