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Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1977 / Served to 1998

Aw Birdsong Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

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

Lived: 1925–1998
Tenure: 1977–1998 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Birdsong authored 3,498 published opinions for the court (1977–1998), plus 101 dissents and 55 concurrences. Most cited: Baldwin v. State (274 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. 1,285 of these were attributed to Birdsong 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
1980	Baldwin v. State	264 S.E.2d 528	274
1990	Grant v. State	393 S.E.2d 737	265
1988	Moore v. Goldome Credit Corp.	370 S.E.2d 843	201
1997	Balkcom v. State	489 S.E.2d 129	158
1991	Gregg v. State	411 S.E.2d 65	141
1991	Fabe v. Floyd	405 S.E.2d 265	122
1997	Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc.	493 S.E.2d 540	118
1980	Georgia-Carolina Brick & Tile Co. v. Brown	266 S.E.2d 531	107
1978	Hughes v. Malone	247 S.E.2d 107	106
1990	Morgan v. State	394 S.E.2d 639	101
1988	Behar v. Aero Med International, Inc.	366 S.E.2d 223	98
1993	Moore v. FOOD ASSOCIATES, INC.	437 S.E.2d 832	91
1989	Boatright v. State	385 S.E.2d 298	86
1994	Renden, Inc. v. Liberty Real Estate Ltd. Partnership	444 S.E.2d 814	84
1986	Whisnant v. State	344 S.E.2d 536	84

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,654 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 Aw Birdsong Jr. on?: Aw Birdsong Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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21 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).