List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)

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This is a list of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia, the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Georgia:

Chief Justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service
Joseph Henry Lumpkin	1863	1867
Hiram B. Warner	1867 1872	1868 1880
Joseph E. Brown	1868	1870
Osborne Augustus Lochrane	1871	1872
James Jackson	1880	1887
Logan Edwin Bleckley	1887	1894
Thomas J. Simmons	1894	1905
William H. Fish	1905	1923
Richard Russell, Sr.	1923	1938
Charles S. Reid	1938	1943
Robert Charles Bell	1943	1946
William Franklin Jenkins	1946	1948
William Henry Duckworth	1948	1969
Bond Almand	1969	1972
Carlton Mobley	1972	1974
Benning M. Grice	1974	1975
Horace Elmo Nichols	1975	1980
Hiram K. Undercofler	1980	1980
Robert H. Jordan	1980	1982
Harold N. Hill, Jr.	1982	1986
Thomas O. Marshall	1986	1989
Harold G. Clarke	1990	1992
Charles Weltner	1992	1992
Harold G. Clarke	1992	1994
Willis B. Hunt, Jr.	1994	1995
Robert Benham	1995	2001
Norman S. Fletcher	2001	2005
Leah Ward Sears	2005	2009
Carol W. Hunstein	2009	2012
George H. Carley	2012	2012
Carol W. Hunstein	2012	2013
Hugh P. Thompson	2013	current

Associate Justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service
Joseph Henry Lumpkin	1845	1863
Hiram B. Warner	1845 1868	1865 1872
Eugenius Aristides Nisbet	1845	1853
E. A. Starnes	1853	1855
Henry L. Benning	1853	1859
Charles James McDonald	1855	1859
Linton Stephens	1859	1860
Richard F. Lyon	1859	1865
Charles J. Jenkins	1860	1866
D. A. Walker	1866	1868
I. L. Harris	1866	1868
Henry Kent McCay	1868	1875
W. W. Montgomery	1872	1873
Robert Pleasant Trippe	1873	1875
Logan Edwin Bleckley	1875	1880
James Jackson	1875	1880
Martin Jenkins Crawford	1880	1883
W. A. Hawkins	1880	1880
Alex M. Speer	1880	1882
Samuel Hall	1882	1887
Mark Harden Blandford	1883	1890
Thomas J. Simmons	1887	1894
Samuel Lumpkin	1891	1903
S. R. Atkinson	1894	1897
William A. Little	1897	1903
William H. Fish	1897	1905
Andrew J. Cobb	1897	1907
Henry T. Lewis	1897	1902
Samuel B. Adams	1902	1902
John S. Candler	1902	1906
Joseph Rucker Lamar	1903	1905
Henry Gray Turner	1903	1904
Beverly Daniel Evans, Jr.	1904	1917
Marcus Wayland Beck	1903	1937
Joseph H. Lumpkin, II	1905	1916
Samuel C. Atkinson	1906	1942
Horace Holden	1907	1911
H. Warner Hill	1911	1934
S. Price Gilbert	1916	1937
Walter F. George	1917	1922
James K. Hines	1922	1932
Robert Charles Bell	1932 1946	1938 1949
John B. Hutcheson	1934	1938
William Franklin Jenkins	1937	1946
Warren Grice	1937	1945
William Henry Duckworth	1938	1948
Samuel D. Hewlett	1942	1942
William Yates Atkinson, Jr.	1943	1953
Lee R. Wyatt	1943	1960
T. Grady Head	1945	1965
Thomas S. Candler	1945	1966
L. C. Groves	1948	1948
J. Harold Hawkins	1949	1960
Bond Almand	1949	1969
Charles W. Worrill	1953	1954
Homer Sutton	1954	1954
Carlton Mobley	1954	1972
Joseph D. Quillian	1960	1966
Benning M. Grice	1960	1974
J. Eugene Cook	1965	1967
Horace Elmo Nichols	1966 1980	1975 1980
Hiram K. Undercofler	1967 1980	1980 1981
John E. Frankum	1967	1970
Jule W. Felton	1969	1972
Peyton Hawes	1970	1973
William B. Gunter	1972	1977
Robert H. Jordan	1972	1980
G. Conley Ingram	1973	1977
Robert Howell Hall	1974	1979
Harold N. Hill, Jr.	1975	1982
Jesse G. Bowles	1977	1981
Thomas O. Marshall	1977	1986
Harold G. Clarke	1979	1989
George Thornewell Smith	1981	1991
Hardy Gregory, Jr.	1981	1989
Charles L. Weltner	1981	1992
Richard Bell	1982	1992
Willis Hunt	1986	1994
Robert Benham	1990 2001	1995 current
Norman S. Fletcher	1990	2001
Leah Ward Sears	1992	2009
Carol W. Hunstein	1992	current
George H. Carley	1993	2012
Hugh P. Thompson	1994	current
Harris Hines	1995	current
Harold Melton	2005	current
David Nahmias	2009	current
Keith R. Blackwell	2012	current

References

• Chief Justices and Justices, 1845-Present