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 1962 / Served to 1965

Robert Lee Russell Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Robert Lee Russell Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1925–1965
Tenure: 1962–1965 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Russell authored 199 published opinions for the court (1962–1965), plus 2 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Assurance Co. of America v. Bell (57 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. 78 of these were attributed to Russell 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
1963	Assurance Co. of America v. Bell	134 S.E.2d 540	57
1963	Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Inc. v. Stevens	132 S.E.2d 119	52
1963	Kreiss v. Allatoona Landing, Inc.	133 S.E.2d 602	37
1962	Porter v. Patterson· Concurrence†	129 S.E.2d 70	29
1962	Central Container Corp. v. Westbrook	126 S.E.2d 264	29
1962	The KROGER COMPANY v. Perpall	125 S.E.2d 511	28
1965	HOUSING &C. CITY OF ATLANTA v. Troncalli	142 S.E.2d 93	27
1964	Parker v. Kilgo	137 S.E.2d 333	26
1963	McKinney v. Burke	133 S.E.2d 383	25
1962	Wright v. the Concrete Company	129 S.E.2d 351	25
1965	State Highway Department v. W. L. Cobb Construction Co.†	111 Ga. App. 822	24
1965	Veterans Organization of Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Inc. v. Potter	141 S.E.2d 230	24
1964	Lincoln Life Insurance v. Anderson	136 S.E.2d 1	23
1963	Wright v. Trust Company of Georgia	134 S.E.2d 457	22
1963	Freedman v. Housing Authority of City of Atlanta	136 S.E.2d 544	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 205 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 Robert Lee Russell Jr. on?: Robert Lee Russell Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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3 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).