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 2010 / Active

Stephen Louis A. Dillard

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Stephen Louis A. Dillard is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 2010. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1969 · age 57
Tenure: Since 2010 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Samford University
Mississippi College

Judicial Record

In our data, Dillard authored 466 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 10 dissents and 52 concurrences. Most cited: Ross v. State (199 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. 414 of these were attributed to Dillard 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	Ross v. State	713 S.E.2d 438	199
2013	Martinez v. State†	325 Ga. App. 267	79
2013	State v. Able†	321 Ga. App. 632	78
2014	Holcomb v. Long†	329 Ga. App. 515	75
2014	Williams v. the State†	328 Ga. App. 876	74
2011	Benefield v. Tominich	708 S.E.2d 563	71
2014	In the Interest of L. T.†	325 Ga. App. 590	69
2014	Brittain v. State†	329 Ga. App. 689	57
2014	Sowell v. State†	327 Ga. App. 532	57
2012	Jones v. State†	318 Ga. App. 26	56
2012	Torres v. Elkin†	317 Ga. App. 135	56
2014	New v. State†	327 Ga. App. 87	52
2012	EWUMI v. State	727 S.E.2d 257	49
2012	Ashmid v. State†	316 Ga. App. 550	48
2011	Georgia Transmission Corp. v. Worley†	312 Ga. App. 855	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 528 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 Stephen Louis A. Dillard on?: Stephen Louis A. Dillard is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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15 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).