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 1999 / Active

Anne Elizabeth Barnes

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Anne Elizabeth Barnes is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Georgia State University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Barnes authored 1,946 published opinions for the court (1999–2019), plus 69 dissents and 106 concurrences. Most cited: Bullock v. Sand (269 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. 1,006 of these were attributed to Barnes 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
2003	Bullock v. Sand†	260 Ga. App. 874	269
2002	Jordan v. State	559 S.E.2d 528	151
2012	Racette v. Bank of America, N.A.†	318 Ga. App. 171	72
2012	Anthony v. State†	317 Ga. App. 807	57
2003	Woody's Steaks, LLC v. Pastoria	584 S.E.2d 41	53
2010	Ferguson v. State· Concurrence†	704 S.E.2d 470	48
2013	UWork.Com, Inc. v. Paragon Technologies, Inc.· Concurrence†	321 Ga. App. 584	47
2001	State v. Gibbons	547 S.E.2d 679	47
2011	Clement v. State	710 S.E.2d 590	46
2003	Authentic Architectural Millworks, Inc. v. SCM Group USA, Inc.	586 S.E.2d 726	45
1999	Schwartz v. Harris Waste Management Group, Inc.	516 S.E.2d 371	44
2005	City of Rincon v. Couch	612 S.E.2d 596	42
2006	Ford v. Bank of America Corp.	627 S.E.2d 376	40
2002	City of Gainesville v. Waters	574 S.E.2d 638	40
2012	Home Depot U. S. A., Inc. v. Wabash National Corp.	724 S.E.2d 53	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,121 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 is Anne Elizabeth Barnes on?: Anne Elizabeth Barnes is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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27 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).