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 1944 / Served to 1949

David Monroe Parker

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

David Monroe Parker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1887–1949
Tenure: 1944–1949 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 278 published opinions for the court (1944–1949), plus 9 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Pearl Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Nichols (35 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. 7 of these were attributed to Parker 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
1946	Pearl Assurance Co. Ltd. v. Nichols	37 S.E.2d 227	35
1949	Milton Bradley Co. of Ga. v. Cooper	53 S.E.2d 761	34
1948	Riggs v. Watson	47 S.E.2d 900	34
1944	Flint River Cotton Mills v. Colley	30 S.E.2d 426	33
1949	Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Burnett	54 S.E.2d 357	32
1946	McCoy v. Scarborough	37 S.E.2d 221	30
1947	Cohen v. Whiteman	43 S.E.2d 184	29
1944	Southeastern Greyhound Lines Inc. v. Hancock	31 S.E.2d 59	29
1949	Atlanta Gas Light Company v. Mills	51 S.E.2d 705	27
1947	American Casualty Co. v. Callaway	44 S.E.2d 400	27
1948	Hennon v. Hardin	50 S.E.2d 236	25
1947	Southeastern Newspapers Inc. v. Walker· Dissent	44 S.E.2d 697	25
1948	United States Casualty Co. v. Kelly	50 S.E.2d 238	24
1945	Atlantic Greyhound Corp. v. Austin	33 S.E.2d 718	24
1944	First National Bank v. American Surety Co.	30 S.E.2d 402	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 292 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 David Monroe Parker on?: David Monroe Parker was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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5 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).