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 1920 / Served to 1922

Benjamin Harvey Hill

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Benjamin Harvey Hill was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1920. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1849 · age 177
Tenure: 1920–1922 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1920	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 164 published opinions for the court (1921–1922). Most cited: New York Life Insurance v. King (36 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. 165 of these were attributed to Hill 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
1922	New York Life Insurance v. King†	28 Ga. App. 607	36
1921	Marr v. Dieter†	27 Ga. App. 711	28
1921	Greenberg & Bond Co. v. Yarbrough†	26 Ga. App. 544	27
1921	Rowland Co. v. Kell Co.†	27 Ga. App. 107	26
1921	Anderson v. Anderson†	27 Ga. App. 513	21
1921	Moseley v. Patterson†	27 Ga. App. 133	15
1921	Early v. Houser & Houser†	28 Ga. App. 24	14
1921	Washington v. Jordan†	28 Ga. App. 18	12
1921	Tennessee, Alabama & Georgia Railroad v. Neely†	27 Ga. App. 491	12
1921	Holbrook v. James H. Prichard Motor Co.†	27 Ga. App. 480	12
1921	Lacey v. Forehand†	27 Ga. App. 344	11
1921	Mahoney v. McKenzie†	27 Ga. App. 245	11
1921	Cornett & Co. v. Newsome†	27 Ga. App. 340	9
1921	Brandt v. Buckley†	27 Ga. App. 515	8
1921	Georgian Co. v. Bloom†	27 Ga. App. 468	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 165 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 Benjamin Harvey Hill on?: Benjamin Harvey Hill was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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2 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).