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 1996 / Served to 2004

Frank M. Eldridge

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Frank M. Eldridge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1996–2004 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eldridge authored 1,245 published opinions for the court (1996–2004), plus 57 dissents and 44 concurrences. Most cited: Spivey v. Hembree (190 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. 407 of these were attributed to Eldridge 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
2004	Spivey v. Hembree	602 S.E.2d 246	190
1997	Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc.· Dissent†	493 S.E.2d 540	118
1997	In the Interest of E. C.	482 S.E.2d 522	105
1998	In the Interest of C. W. D.	501 S.E.2d 232	75
1997	Taylor v. State	485 S.E.2d 830	75
1999	In the Interest of M. L. P.†	236 Ga. App. 504	74
1996	Hawkins v. State	476 S.E.2d 803	67
2002	Department of Transportation v. Dupree	570 S.E.2d 1	65
2001	Taylor v. Powertel, Inc.	551 S.E.2d 765	64
2000	Odom v. State	531 S.E.2d 207	62
2001	Bruce v. State	555 S.E.2d 819	60
2002	Capricorn Systems, Inc. v. Godavarthy†	253 Ga. App. 840	58
1997	Disaster Services, Inc. v. ERC Partnership	492 S.E.2d 526	55
2001	Hollifield v. Monte Vista Biblical Gardens, Inc.	553 S.E.2d 662	51
1999	Witty v. McNeal Agency, Inc.	521 S.E.2d 619	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,346 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 Frank M. Eldridge on?: Frank M. Eldridge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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8 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).