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 1967 / Served to 1991

George Price Whitman

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

George Price Whitman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1883 · age 143
Tenure: 1967–1991 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Whitman authored 251 published opinions for the court (1967–1971), plus 10 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Gee v. State (58 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. 121 of these were attributed to Whitman 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
1970	Gee v. State	172 S.E.2d 480	58
1971	STOVALL & COMPANY, INC. v. Tate	184 S.E.2d 834	44
1969	Freeman v. Wilcox	167 S.E.2d 163	43
1968	Ghitter v. Edge	165 S.E.2d 598	42
1971	Escambia Chemical Corp. v. Rocker· Concurrence†	184 S.E.2d 31	36
1971	City of Barnesville v. Powell	183 S.E.2d 55	36
1969	Parham v. State· Dissent†	171 S.E.2d 911	35
1970	Carter v. State	176 S.E.2d 238	31
1971	Ford Motor Company v. Gunn	181 S.E.2d 694	30
1970	Campbell v. Carroll· Dissent†	174 S.E.2d 375	28
1969	Wood v. Brunswick Pulp & Paper Co.· Concurrence†	169 S.E.2d 403	28
1968	Malone v. Ottinger	165 S.E.2d 660	28
1970	Anderson v. Crippen· Dissent†	176 S.E.2d 196	27
1971	Jinright v. Russell	182 S.E.2d 328	26
1968	Jessup v. Franklin Life Insurance Co.	160 S.E.2d 612	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 George Price Whitman on?: George Price Whitman was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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24 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).