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 2000 / Served to 2012

Charles B. Mikell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Charles B. Mikell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: 2000–2012 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Princeton University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Mikell authored 1,568 published opinions for the court (2000–2012), plus 8 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Radio Sandy Springs, Inc. v. Allen Road Joint Venture (181 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. 236 of these were attributed to Mikell 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
2011	Radio Sandy Springs, Inc. v. Allen Road Joint Venture	715 S.E.2d 752	181
2010	Goss v. State	699 S.E.2d 819	67
2001	In the Interest of F. C.†	248 Ga. App. 675	65
2002	Ellis v. Stanford	568 S.E.2d 157	55
2006	Cotten v. Phillips	633 S.E.2d 655	54
2004	In the Interest of S. L. B.†	265 Ga. App. 684	52
2001	Golden Peanut Co. v. Bass	547 S.E.2d 637	52
2002	Hubbard v. Department of Transportation	568 S.E.2d 559	48
2008	Hernandez v. State	662 S.E.2d 325	46
2008	Hayes v. State	665 S.E.2d 422	44
2001	Stephens v. State	545 S.E.2d 325	44
2011	Marshall v. Browning	712 S.E.2d 71	43
2006	Buruca v. State	629 S.E.2d 438	43
2007	In the Interest of H. S.†	285 Ga. App. 839	42
2001	Baker v. State	556 S.E.2d 892	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,590 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 Charles B. Mikell on?: Charles B. Mikell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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11 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).