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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 2009 / Former Justice

David E. Nahmias

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

David E. Nahmias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Auburn University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Nahmias authored 405 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 11 dissents and 71 concurrences. Most cited: Cowart v. Widener (430 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. 367 of these were attributed to Nahmias 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
2010	Cowart v. Widener	697 S.E.2d 779	430
2012	Neal v. State· Concurrence†	722 S.E.2d 765	374
2013	Romer v. State†	293 Ga. 339	233
2010	State v. Jackson	697 S.E.2d 757	177
2014	Tolbert v. Toole†	296 Ga. 357	171
2011	Gable v. State	720 S.E.2d 170	154
2018	Kirby v. State†	819 S.E.2d 468	129
2016	Davis v. State†	299 Ga. 180	127
2016	Lupoe v. State†	300 Ga. 233	125
2011	State v. Porter	705 S.E.2d 636	120
2015	Woodard v. State†	296 Ga. 803	119
2013	Nazario v. State†	293 Ga. 480	116
2016	Hood v. State†	299 Ga. 95	115
2011	State v. Pickett	706 S.E.2d 561	103
2013	Cowart v. State†	294 Ga. 333	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 487 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 was David E. Nahmias on?: David E. Nahmias was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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17 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).