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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1945 / Served to 1965

T Grady Head

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

T Grady Head was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1897–1965
Tenure: 1945–1965 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Head authored 792 published opinions for the court (1945–1965), plus 28 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Frazier v. Southern Railway Company (104 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. 236 of these were attributed to Head 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
1946	Frazier v. Southern Railway Company	37 S.E.2d 774	104
1958	Woodside v. City of Atlanta· Concurrence†	103 S.E.2d 108	91
1955	Wilson v. State	90 S.E.2d 557	82
1961	Reynolds v. Reynolds	123 S.E.2d 115	72
1962	Kendrick v. Kendrick	128 S.E.2d 496	68
1965	Gravitt v. State	141 S.E.2d 893	59
1956	Lovejoy v. Tidwell	95 S.E.2d 784	59
1951	Royals v. State	65 S.E.2d 158	58
1960	Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Wilson†	215 Ga. 746	55
1957	McGruder v. State	98 S.E.2d 564	55
1953	Grayson-Robinson Stores Inc. v. Oneida Ltd.· Concurrence†	75 S.E.2d 161	55
1960	Sears, Roebuck & Company v. Wilson	113 S.E.2d 611	51
1951	Cross v. Huff	67 S.E.2d 124	50
1948	Ryan v. Commissioners of Chatham County	48 S.E.2d 86	49
1956	Waters v. Fleetwood	91 S.E.2d 344	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 835 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 T Grady Head on?: T Grady Head was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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20 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).