Who appointed George Ernest Tidwell?

President Jimmy Carter appointed George Ernest Tidwell to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in 1979.

Was George Ernest Tidwell appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?

George Ernest Tidwell was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.

What was George Ernest Tidwell's confirmation vote?

George Ernest Tidwell was confirmed by voice vote on July 23, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.

Northern District of Georgia / Appointed 1979 / Served to 2011

George Ernest Tidwell

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and confirmed by voice vote, George Ernest Tidwell was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. He earned a law degree from Emory University School of Law in 1954. Rulings & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1931–2011
Appointed by: Jimmy Carter, 1979
Confirmed: by voice vote
Education: Emory Law 1954
Succeeded by: Beverly Baldwin Martin

Federal judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Northern District of Georgia	Carter (D)	Voice vote

Party letters show the appointing president’s party, not the judge’s own. A voice vote means the chamber approved aloud. No senator-by-senator tally is recorded.

Confirmation vote

Voice vote

The Senate approved this confirmation aloud, with no senator-by-senator tally recorded. Recorded roll-call votes begin in 1989.

Education

Emory University School of Law

LL.B.

1954

Judicial Record

Caseload & case types

In our data, Tidwell was assigned 4,648 district-court cases (1980–2010). Median time from filing to termination: 238 days across 4,648 closed cases.

Contract21%

Civil rights19%

Prisoner & habeas17%

Personal-injury torts13%

Other federal statutes6%

Labor & ERISA5%

Other18%

Case assignment is from CourtListener’s PACER-derived docket records: a partial sample, not a complete caseload, reflecting the judge last assigned each case. How we count.

On appeal

Of 59 of Tidwell’s decisions reviewed on the merits by the U.S. courts of appeals in our data, 51 were affirmed, 6 reversed or vacated, and 2 affirmed in part and reversed in part. This is a historical count of appellate outcomes for cases we could match, not a judgment of the judge, and not a complete record. How we count.

In our data, Tidwell authored 54 published opinions for the court (1979–2011). Most cited: BellSouth Mobility Inc. v. Gwinnett County, GA (65 citations).

A selective record from published opinions in the CourtListener corpus, not every ruling; most unpublished district orders are not included. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge.

Recent & notable rulings

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1996	BellSouth Mobility Inc. v. Gwinnett County, GA	944 F. Supp. 923	65
1979	Boyer v. J. A. Majors Co. Employees' Profit Sharing Plan	481 F. Supp. 454	46
1986	Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc.	642 F. Supp. 1031	31
1981	Knowles v. Metropolitan Life Insurance	514 F. Supp. 515	26
1981	Blackwell v. Professional Business Services of Georgia, Inc.	526 F. Supp. 535	25
1980	Arbitration Between Laminoirs-Trefileries-Cableries De Lens, S. A. v. Southwire Co.	484 F. Supp. 1063	21
1983	Hallam v. Murphy	586 F. Supp. 1	17
1989	Intown Enterprises, Inc. v. Barnes	721 F. Supp. 1263	16
1980	Reineke v. Cobb County School District	484 F. Supp. 1252	15
1999	Alcatel Contracting (NA), Inc. v. Slaughter Co. & Associates	251 B.R. 437	11
1981	United States v. Haley	521 F. Supp. 290	10
1980	Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc. v. Toy Loft, Inc.	489 F. Supp. 174	10
1980	Swafford v. Transit Casualty Co.	486 F. Supp. 175	9
2002	Bank of America, N.A. v. Sorrell	248 F. Supp. 2d 1196	8
1990	Bellam v. Clayton County Hospital Authority	758 F. Supp. 1488	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 54 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

Who appointed George Ernest Tidwell?: President Jimmy Carter appointed George Ernest Tidwell to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in 1979.
Was George Ernest Tidwell appointed by a Democrat or a Republican?: George Ernest Tidwell was appointed by President Jimmy Carter, a Democrat. JudicialFinder records the appointing president's party, not a judge's own politics.
What was George Ernest Tidwell's confirmation vote?: George Ernest Tidwell was confirmed by voice vote on July 23, 1979. No senator-by-senator tally was recorded.
Which court was George Ernest Tidwell on?: George Ernest Tidwell was a Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Sources

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32 years on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Data as of 2026-08-10. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).