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 1977 / Served to 1984

Arnold Shulman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Arnold Shulman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1914–2010
Tenure: 1977–1984 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Shulman authored 1,298 published opinions for the court (1977–1984), plus 18 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. State (68 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. 615 of these were attributed to Shulman 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
1977	Johnson v. State	235 S.E.2d 550	68
1977	Binswanger Glass Co. v. Beers Construction Co.	234 S.E.2d 363	51
1977	Haskins v. Jones	235 S.E.2d 630	50
1981	Truelove v. Wilson	285 S.E.2d 556	49
1983	Atlantic-Canadian Corp. v. Hammer, Siler, George Associates, Inc.	306 S.E.2d 22	48
1983	Department of Transportation v. 2.734 Acres of Land	309 S.E.2d 816	46
1981	Barnes v. State· Dissent†	157 Ga. App. 582	45
1982	State v. Hopkins· Dissent†	293 S.E.2d 529	44
1981	Paxton v. State	285 S.E.2d 741	44
1977	Johnson v. State	237 S.E.2d 681	44
1981	Premium Distributing Co. v. National Distributing Co.	278 S.E.2d 468	42
1982	Haynes v. Hoffman	296 S.E.2d 216	40
1978	Woods v. Andersen· Concurrence†	243 S.E.2d 748	40
1981	Blount v. Moore· Dissent†	159 Ga. App. 80	39
1978	Johnson v. State	246 S.E.2d 363	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,330 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 Arnold Shulman on?: Arnold Shulman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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7 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).