How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1918 / Served to 1943

Alexander William Stephens

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Alexander William Stephens was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1918. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1918–1943 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1918	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Stephens authored 2,509 published opinions for the court (1919–1943), plus 134 dissents and 59 concurrences. Most cited: Eubanks v. Mullis (50 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 2,308 of these were attributed to Stephens by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1935	Eubanks v. Mullis· Concurrence†	51 Ga. App. 728	50
1942	Williams v. Maryland Casualty Co.	21 S.E.2d 478	48
1937	Interstate Life & Accident Co. v. Brewer· Concurrence†	56 Ga. App. 599	43
1940	Young v. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation	10 S.E.2d 412	42
1936	Battle v. Kilcrease†	54 Ga. App. 808	41
1935	Candler v. Smith· Dissent†	50 Ga. App. 667	40
1933	Emory University v. Shadburn	47 Ga. App. 643	40
1942	Callaway v. Pickard	23 S.E.2d 564	39
1933	Scott v. Rich's Inc.†	47 Ga. App. 548	39
1920	Lebby v. Atlanta Realty Corp.· Dissent†	25 Ga. App. 369	39
1942	Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad	19 S.E.2d 377	35
1933	Sinclair Refining Co. v. Davis†	47 Ga. App. 601	35
1931	Hulsey v. Hightower· Dissent†	44 Ga. App. 455	35
1929	Kleinberg v. Lyons· Dissent†	39 Ga. App. 774	35
1940	Conoly v. Imperial Tobacco Co.	12 S.E.2d 398	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,704 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Alexander William Stephens on?: Alexander William Stephens was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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25 years on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).