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 1991 / Served to 1998

Gary Andrews

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Gary Andrews was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1991–1998 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Andrews authored 1,793 published opinions for the court (1991–2012), plus 90 dissents and 42 concurrences. Most cited: Handler v. Hulsey (138 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. 409 of these were attributed to Andrews 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
1991	Handler v. Hulsey	406 S.E.2d 225	138
1995	Thomas v. Douglas County†	217 Ga. App. 520	77
1996	Parker v. State	469 S.E.2d 410	67
1991	Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	406 S.E.2d 234	66
1996	Goring v. Martinez	479 S.E.2d 432	62
1991	Beringause v. Fogleman Truck Lines, Inc.· Dissent†	409 S.E.2d 524	55
2006	Southwest Health and Wellness, LLC v. Work	639 S.E.2d 570	54
1995	Williams v. State	458 S.E.2d 671	53
1998	Straughter v. J. H. Harvey Company, Inc.· Dissent†	500 S.E.2d 353	52
2003	McCaskill v. Carillo	589 S.E.2d 582	49
1995	Coffee County School District v. Snipes	216 Ga. App. 293	49
1994	Ben Farmer Realty Co. v. Woodard	441 S.E.2d 421	49
2006	Morrell v. Wellstar Health System, Inc.	633 S.E.2d 68	48
1996	State v. Pastorini· Concurrence†	474 S.E.2d 122	47
2001	Olariu v. Marrero	549 S.E.2d 121	46

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,925 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 Gary Andrews on?: Gary Andrews was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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7 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).