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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1972 / Served to 1977

William B. Gunter

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

William B. Gunter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1919 · age 107
Tenure: 1972–1977 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

University of Georgia
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Gunter authored 375 published opinions for the court (1972–1977), plus 106 dissents and 40 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Stonaker (349 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. 318 of these were attributed to Gunter 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
1976	State v. Stonaker	222 S.E.2d 354	349
1974	Gregg v. State· Dissent†	210 S.E.2d 659	190
1975	Patterson v. State· Dissent†	213 S.E.2d 612	153
1974	Coley v. State· Concurrence†	204 S.E.2d 612	150
1976	Riley v. State· Dissent†	226 S.E.2d 922	135
1974	Johnson v. State	209 S.E.2d 629	128
1974	House v. State· Dissent†	205 S.E.2d 217	125
1975	Westview Cemetery, Inc. v. Blanchard	216 S.E.2d 776	117
1973	Coe & Payne Co. v. Wood-Mosaic Corp.	195 S.E.2d 399	114
1972	Creamer v. State· Dissent†	192 S.E.2d 350	114
1972	Robinson v. State· Dissent†	189 S.E.2d 53	114
1976	State v. Middlebrooks· Dissent†	222 S.E.2d 343	107
1976	Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company v. Jones	224 S.E.2d 25	100
1973	Turner v. Harper	200 S.E.2d 748	100
1976	State v. Moore· Dissent†	227 S.E.2d 241	99

Showing the 15 most-cited of 521 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 William B. Gunter on?: William B. Gunter was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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5 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).