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 1992 / Served to 2010

Edward H. Johnson

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Edward H. Johnson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1992–2010 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Georgia State University
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Johnson authored 2,283 published opinions for the court (1992–2010), plus 11 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp. (645 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. 598 of these were attributed to Johnson 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	Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp.	486 S.E.2d 684	645
2009	Burg v. State	676 S.E.2d 465	470
2002	Glass v. State	565 S.E.2d 500	67
1994	Pace Construction Corp. v. Northpark Associates, L.P.†	215 Ga. App. 438	66
1993	Southern Cellular Telecom v. Banks	433 S.E.2d 606	62
1998	In the Interest of A. C.	496 S.E.2d 752	60
1998	City of Atlanta v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance	498 S.E.2d 782	58
1999	In the Interest of K. M.†	240 Ga. App. 677	57
2010	MATHERLEE v. State	694 S.E.2d 665	54
2005	In the Interest of A. K.†	272 Ga. App. 429	54
2009	Taylor v. Curl	679 S.E.2d 80	52
1997	Allen v. Hub Cap Heaven, Inc.	484 S.E.2d 259	50
2009	Works v. State	686 S.E.2d 863	48
2002	Rose v. State	573 S.E.2d 465	48
1995	Ghrist v. Fricks	465 S.E.2d 501	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,307 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 Edward H. Johnson on?: Edward H. Johnson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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18 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).