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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1986 / Served to 1995

Willis B. Hunt Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Willis B. Hunt Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1986–1995 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunt authored 192 published opinions for the court (1986–1995), plus 47 dissents and 48 concurrences. Most cited: Scruggs v. Georgia Department of Human Resources (208 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. 287 of these were attributed to Hunt 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
1991	Scruggs v. Georgia Department of Human Resources· Concurrence†	408 S.E.2d 103	208
1989	Claussen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.· Dissent†	380 S.E.2d 686	172
1991	Stephens v. State†	405 S.E.2d 483	157
1989	Smith v. State· Concurrence†	377 S.E.2d 158	146
1991	Yarbray v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.†	409 S.E.2d 835	143
1995	Brooks v. Parkerson†	265 Ga. 189	134
1987	Allison v. State· Dissent†	353 S.E.2d 805	123
1990	Renner v. State†	397 S.E.2d 683	120
1991	Todd v. State†	410 S.E.2d 725	108
1991	Tarvestad v. State· Concurrence†	409 S.E.2d 513	103
1990	Thaxton v. State· Concurrence†	390 S.E.2d 841	96
1992	Donaldson v. Department of Transportation· Concurrence†	414 S.E.2d 638	95
1994	Burgess v. State· Concurrence†	264 Ga. 777	89
1992	Lynd v. State†	414 S.E.2d 5	75
1989	Thompson v. Crownover· Concurrence†	377 S.E.2d 660	75

Showing the 15 most-cited of 287 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 Willis B. Hunt Jr. on?: Willis B. Hunt Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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9 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).