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 1963 / Served to 1976

Charles Adams Pannell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Charles Adams Pannell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1963. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1911 · age 115
Tenure: 1963–1976 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1963	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Pannell authored 1,055 published opinions for the court (1963–1976), plus 99 dissents and 87 concurrences. Most cited: Hoard v. Wiley (120 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. 645 of these were attributed to Pannell 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
1966	Hoard v. Wiley· Concurrence†	147 S.E.2d 782	120
1964	Gibson v. Consolidated Credit Corp.· Dissent†	138 S.E.2d 77	101
1968	Raven v. Dodd's Auto Sales & Service, Inc.	160 S.E.2d 633	66
1970	Wright v. Dilbeck	176 S.E.2d 715	65
1972	Buffalo Cab Co. v. Williams· Dissent†	191 S.E.2d 317	63
1970	Werbin & Tenenbaum, Inc. v. Heard	173 S.E.2d 114	59
1973	Norfolk & Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance v. Cumbaa	196 S.E.2d 167	57
1975	Hudson v. State	218 S.E.2d 905	56
1969	Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Beaver	170 S.E.2d 737	51
1968	Braswell v. American National Bank	161 S.E.2d 420	51
1969	Whisenhunt v. Allen Parker Co.· Concurrence†	168 S.E.2d 827	50
1970	Jenkins v. BOARD OF ZONING &C. CITY OF COLUMBUS	177 S.E.2d 204	48
1970	Home Indemnity Company v. Godley· Concurrence†	177 S.E.2d 105	47
1973	First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Kunes· Concurrence†	197 S.E.2d 446	44
1971	Burnette Ford, Inc. v. Hayes	183 S.E.2d 78	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,241 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 Adams Pannell on?: Charles Adams Pannell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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13 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).