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 1917 / Served to 1918

Frank Harwell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Frank Harwell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1917–1918 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Harwell authored 143 published opinions for the court (1917–1918), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Jones v. Asa G. Candler Inc. (34 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. 147 of these were attributed to Harwell 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
1918	Jones v. Asa G. Candler Inc.†	22 Ga. App. 717	34
1917	Dougherty v. Woodward†	21 Ga. App. 427	24
1917	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Hill†	21 Ga. App. 231	24
1918	Hearn v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.†	22 Ga. App. 1	23
1918	Johnston v. Sheppard†	22 Ga. App. 206	19
1917	McDonald v. State†	21 Ga. App. 125	15
1918	Morris v. Evans†	22 Ga. App. 11	13
1918	Continental Aid Ass'n v. Hand†	22 Ga. App. 726	12
1918	Caddick Milling Co. v. Moultrie Grocery Co.†	22 Ga. App. 524	12
1918	Flournoy v. American Hat Mfg. Co.†	21 Ga. App. 599	12
1918	Chambers v. State†	22 Ga. App. 748	11
1917	Madden v. Mitchell Automobile Co.†	21 Ga. App. 108	10
1918	Marbut v. Southern Railway Co.†	22 Ga. App. 330	9
1918	Brooks v. State†	21 Ga. App. 661	9
1918	Biddy v. State†	22 Ga. App. 784	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 147 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 Harwell on?: Frank Harwell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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