John J. Ellington (born October 26, 1960) is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia and former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
He graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting in 1982, and from the University of Georgia School of Law with a Juris Doctor in 1985.
[1] In 1991, he was appointed to serve as judge of the Treutlen County State Court.
He was elected statewide to a full six-year term in 2000 and re-elected in 2006 and 2012.
[2] In early 2018 Ellington announced his intention to run for the state Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Carol W.