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

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 2018 / Active

Charles J. Bethel

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Charles J. Bethel is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bethel authored 23 published opinions for the court (2018–2019), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: White v. State (79 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. 25 of these were attributed to Bethel 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
2019	White v. State· Concurrence†	823 S.E.2d 794	79
2019	Davis v. State†	829 S.E.2d 321	64
2019	Duke v. State†	829 S.E.2d 348	63
2019	Vasquez v. State†	830 S.E.2d 143	29
2019	Debelbot v. State· Concurrence†	826 S.E.2d 129	26
2019	State v. Johnson†	824 S.E.2d 317	26
2019	Riley v. State†	824 S.E.2d 249	19
2019	Wyno v. Lowndes Cnty.†	824 S.E.2d 297	17
2019	Birdow v. State†	823 S.E.2d 736	15
2019	In re M. F.†	828 S.E.2d 350	14
2019	Tyner v. State†	825 S.E.2d 129	14
2019	Jackson v. State†	825 S.E.2d 188	14
2018	Phx. v. State†	822 S.E.2d 195	13
2019	Haney v. State†	827 S.E.2d 843	12
2019	Favors v. State†	825 S.E.2d 164	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Charles J. Bethel on?: Charles J. Bethel is a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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8 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).