C. Andrew Fuller

2023 – 2024

Senior Judge C. Andrew Fuller was unanimously voted by the judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia to assist on the court beginning August 7, 2023.

Judge Fuller is a Senior Superior Court Judge, having served in this position since his retirement from the Northeastern Judicial Circuit Superior Court bench on December 31, 2022, where he had served since his initial appointment by then-Governor Zell Miller in 1993. After his appointment, Senior Judge Fuller was reelected without opposition to multiple consecutive terms and served as the Chief Superior Court Judge for 20 years.

While he served on the Superior Court, Senior Judge Fuller presided over the Hall County Re-entry Accountability Court Transition program, which provided non-violent offenders with substance abuse and vocational training. He also served as Chair of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and as a member of both the Georgia Commission on Dispute Resolution and the Advisory Board of the Georgia Indigent Defense Council.  As Georgia’s public defender system became law, Senior Judge Fuller served on the Georgia Supreme Court’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Indigent Defense. 

Senior Judge Fuller is a lifelong resident of Gainesville, Georgia, and graduated from the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in history and a minor in political science. In 1980, he earned his law degree from the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University and began practicing law in his hometown of Gainesville. In 1987, Senior Judge Fuller was elected to serve as the District Attorney for the Northeastern Judicial Circuit, which then included Hall, Dawson, Lumpkin, and White Counties, where he remained until his appointment to the bench in 1993. Although the Northeastern Judicial Circuit was eventually reduced to only Hall and Dawson Counties, Senior Judge Fuller enjoyed serving the citizens of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit as a superior court judge until he retired.