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 1919 / Served to 1920

Charles Whitefoord Smith

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Charles Whitefoord Smith was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1919. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1919–1920 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1919	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 150 published opinions for the court (1919–1920), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Lebby v. Atlanta Realty Corp. (39 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. 156 of these were attributed to Smith 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
1920	Lebby v. Atlanta Realty Corp.†	25 Ga. App. 369	39
1920	Rape v. Barker†	25 Ga. App. 362	20
1920	Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Shaw†	25 Ga. App. 146	18
1920	Lightfoot v. King†	25 Ga. App. 80	13
1920	Allen v. Montgomery· Dissent†	25 Ga. App. 817	12
1919	Pacific Mutual Life Insuance v. Meldrim†	24 Ga. App. 487	12
1919	Edwards v. Blackshear†	24 Ga. App. 622	11
1920	City of Sandersville v. Moye†	25 Ga. App. 64	8
1919	International Agricultural Corp. v. Suber†	24 Ga. App. 445	8
1919	Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Puckett†	24 Ga. App. 458	8
1920	Ohlen v. McCoy†	25 Ga. App. 528	7
1920	Thomas N. Baker Lumber Co. v. Atlantic Mill & Lumber Co.· Dissent†	24 Ga. App. 749	7
1919	Todd v. Jackson†	24 Ga. App. 519	7
1920	Payne v. Hayes†	25 Ga. App. 730	6
1920	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Thompson†	25 Ga. App. 715	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 Whitefoord Smith on?: Charles Whitefoord Smith was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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1 year 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).