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Judge Began active service Ended active service Term as chief justice Eugenius Aristides Nisbet: 1845: 1853: Joseph Henry Lumpkin: 1845: 1867: 1863–1867 Hiram B. Warner
The Supreme Court of Georgia is located at the Nathan Deal Judicial Center in Atlanta. The Supreme Court of Georgia is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia. The court was established in 1845 as a three-member panel, increased in number to six, then to seven in 1945, and finally to nine in 2017. [1]
Justices Stephen Dillard, Ken Hodges, Benjamin Land, Amanda Mercier, Brian Rickman, and Jeffrey Watkins were unopposed for re-election. Since 1896, justices on the Supreme Court and judges on the Court of Appeals have been directly elected in statewide elections. Judicial elections were made non-partisan in 1983. Elections for nonpartisan state ...
Who is running for the Georgia Supreme Court in 2024? Four sitting justices, John Ellington, Nels Peterson, Andrew Pinson and Chief Justice Michael P. Boggs are currently running for re-election.
Pages in category "Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
(The Center Square) – Threats against judges and other courtroom personnel are increasing but Georgia's courts are as strong as ever, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Boggs said in his ...
On November 9, 2016 Governor Nathan Deal appointed three new justices to the Georgia Supreme Court, including Boggs. [7] He was seated on January 1, 2017. He won the 2018 and 2024 Georgia judicial elections uncontested. [8] [9] He became chief justice on July 18, 2022. [10]
Georgia Supreme Court justices on Tuesday unanimously denied an emergency motion to pause an order blocking the rules and expedite their review of the case, a docket entry showed, meaning the ...