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 1976 / Served to 2000

William Leroy McMurray Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

William Leroy McMurray Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1976–2000 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McMurray authored 4,292 published opinions for the court (1976–2010), plus 279 dissents and 81 concurrences. Most cited: Boyle v. State of Georgia (739 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. 2,173 of these were attributed to McMurray 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
1989	Boyle v. State of Georgia	380 S.E.2d 57	739
1996	Smoak v. Department of Human Resources†	221 Ga. App. 257	574
1997	Couch v. UNITED PAPERWORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION	482 S.E.2d 704	248
1989	Boyd v. State†	191 Ga. App. 435	216
1995	English v. Delbridge	216 Ga. App. 366	180
1995	Strachan v. Meritor Mortgage Corp. East†	216 Ga. App. 82	157
2000	Echols v. State†	243 Ga. App. 775	150
1998	Jennings v. Moss†	235 Ga. App. 357	124
1978	Walker v. State· Dissent†	246 S.E.2d 206	108
1995	Reese v. State· Concurrence†	216 Ga. App. 773	102
1994	Herring v. Dunning	446 S.E.2d 199	97
1978	Central State Hospital v. James· Dissent†	248 S.E.2d 678	76
1994	Southmark Corp. v. Trotter, Smith & Jacobs	442 S.E.2d 265	61
1997	Zamora v. State	485 S.E.2d 214	60
1995	Brewer v. State	463 S.E.2d 906	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 4,652 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 William Leroy McMurray Jr. on?: William Leroy McMurray Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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24 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).