Carol Wyckoff Hunstein (born August 16, 1944) is an American lawyer and judge from Georgia.

[4][5] Hunstein was born in Miami, Florida, on August 16, 1944, to John C. and Mary Reynolds Wyckoff.

In 1976, she received her Juris Doctor, was admitted to the Georgia Bar Association, and subsequently went into private practice.

Having established herself in the legal community by 1984, she ran against four men for election to the Superior Court in DeKalb County and made it into the runoff.

[9] In June 2009, Hunstein was unanimously elected to replace the retiring Leah Ward Sears as chief justice.