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 1976 / Active

George T. Smith

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

George T. Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 1976. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1976 · 50 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1976	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Smith authored 721 published opinions for the court (1976–1980), plus 40 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. State (68 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. 399 of these were attributed to Smith 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
1977	Johnson v. State· Dissent†	235 S.E.2d 550	68
1978	Boyd v. State	246 S.E.2d 396	53
1978	Tuzman v. State	244 S.E.2d 882	52
1978	Ginn v. Citizens & Southern National Bank	243 S.E.2d 528	50
1980	Kennedy v. Gwinnett Commercial Bank· Concurrence†	270 S.E.2d 867	49
1979	Fisher v. State	258 S.E.2d 920	48
1976	Allen v. State· Dissent†	232 S.E.2d 250	44
1979	Moore v. State	260 S.E.2d 350	41
1980	Mock v. CANTERBURY REALTY COMPANY· Concurrence†	264 S.E.2d 489	40
1978	Woods v. Andersen· Dissent†	243 S.E.2d 748	40
1978	State v. Tuzman	243 S.E.2d 675	38
1978	Love v. State	242 S.E.2d 278	38
1978	Fierer v. Ashe	249 S.E.2d 270	36
1977	Watts v. State	237 S.E.2d 231	35
1978	Gerald v. Ameron Automotive Centers	243 S.E.2d 565	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 776 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 is George T. Smith on?: George T. Smith is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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50 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).