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 1984 / Served to 1999

Dorothy Toth Beasley

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Dorothy Toth Beasley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1984–1999 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

American University

Judicial Record

In our data, Beasley authored 2,110 published opinions for the court (1984–1999), plus 315 dissents and 585 concurrences. Most cited: Balkcom v. State (158 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. 1,459 of these were attributed to Beasley 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
1997	Balkcom v. State· Dissent†	489 S.E.2d 129	158
1998	White v. State†	233 Ga. App. 873	123
1991	Hunter v. State· Dissent†	413 S.E.2d 526	93
1988	Oller v. State· Concurrence†	371 S.E.2d 455	76
1997	McClain v. State	487 S.E.2d 471	69
1994	Pace Construction Corp. v. Northpark Associates, L.P.· Dissent†	215 Ga. App. 438	66
1987	In the Interest of J. L. Y.	361 S.E.2d 246	65
1997	Imaging Systems International, Inc. v. Magnetic Resonance Plus, Inc.	490 S.E.2d 124	61
1997	Zamora v. State· Concurrence†	485 S.E.2d 214	60
1997	Pickens v. State	484 S.E.2d 731	59
1994	Hooten v. State· Concurrence†	442 S.E.2d 836	59
1989	Coleman v. Housing Authority	381 S.E.2d 303	59
1988	Brandvain v. Ridgeview Institute, Inc.	372 S.E.2d 265	58
1988	State v. Oliver· Concurrence†	372 S.E.2d 256	58
1985	Hambrick v. State	330 S.E.2d 383	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 3,011 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 Dorothy Toth Beasley on?: Dorothy Toth Beasley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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15 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).