Georgia Superior Courts

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Georgia Superior Courts

The Superior Courts of Georgia have general jurisdiction over trial cases in the state. They also hear appeals from the lower courts.

Court division

The Superior Court is divided into 10 Judicial Districts and 49 Judicial Circuits with each county having its own.

District Areas served Counties within Areas
First District Atlantic, Brunswick, Eastern, Ogeechee and Waycross Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, and Tattnall; Appling, Camden, Glynn, Jeff Davis, and Wayne; Chatham; Bulloch, Effingham, Jenkins, and Screven; Bacon, Brantley, Charlton, Coffee, Pierce, and Ware
Second District Alapaha, Dougherty, Pataula, South Georgia, Southern and Tifton Atkinson, Berrien, Clinch, Cook and Lanier; Dougherty; Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph, Seminole and Terrell; Baker, Calhoun, Decatur, Grady and Mitchell; Brooks, Colquitt, Echols, Lowndes and Thomas; Irwin, Tift, Turner and Worth
Third District Chattahoochee, Houston, Macon and Southwestern Chattahoochee, Harris, Marion, Muscogee, Talbot, and Taylor; Houston; Bibb, Crawford, and Peach; Lee, Macon, Schley, Stewart, Sumter, and Webster
Fourth District Stone Mountain and Rockdale DeKalb; Rockdale
Fifth District Fulton (Atlanta) Fulton
Sixth District Clayton, Coweta, Flint, Griffin and Towaliga Clayton; Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Meriwether, and Troup; Henry, Fayette, Pike, Spalding, and Upson; Butts, Lamar, and Monroe
Seventh District Cherokee, Cobb, Conasauga, Douglas, Lookout Mountain, Paulding, Rome and Tallapoosa Bartow and Gordon; Cobb; Murray and Whitfield; Douglas; Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, and Walker; Paulding; Floyd; Haralson and Polk
Eighth District Cordele, Dublin, Middle, Ocmulgee and Oconee Ben Hill, Crisp, Dooly, and Wilcox; Laurens, Johnson, Treutlen, and Twiggs; Candler, Emanuel, Jefferson, Toombs, and Washington; Baldwin, Greene, Hancock, Jasper, Jones, Morgan, Putnam and Wilkinson; Bleckley, Dodge, Montgomery, Pulaski, Telfair, and Wheeler
Ninth District Appalachian, Bell-Forsyth, Blue Ridge, Enotah, Gwinnett, Mountain and Northeastern Fannin, Gilmer, and Pickens; Forsyth; Cherokee; Lumpkin, Towns, Union, and White; Gwinnett; Habersham, Rabun, and Stephens; Dawson and Hall
Tenth District Alcovy, Augusta, Northern, Piedmont, Toombs and Western Newton and Walton; Burke, Columbia, and Richmond; Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Madison and Oglethorpe; Banks, Barrow, and Jackson; Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren and Wilkes; Clarke and Oconee

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