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 1997 / Active

Harold Banke

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Harold Banke is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1997 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Banke authored 1,941 published opinions for the court (1977–1999), plus 6 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. Hospital Corporation of America (167 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. 176 of these were attributed to Banke 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
1989	Johnson v. Hospital Corporation of America	385 S.E.2d 731	167
1984	State v. Golden	318 S.E.2d 693	101
1980	Chancey v. Department of Human Resources	274 S.E.2d 728	74
1998	Pollard v. State	495 S.E.2d 629	57
1978	Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. King	244 S.E.2d 905	56
1997	Brewer v. State	481 S.E.2d 608	54
1978	Lingerfelt v. State	249 S.E.2d 100	54
1977	Hull v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance	235 S.E.2d 601	49
1988	Peace v. Weisman	368 S.E.2d 319	46
1982	State v. Adamczyk	290 S.E.2d 149	45
1980	Georgia Power Company v. Johnson	274 S.E.2d 17	45
1980	Nestle Co. v. JH EWING & SON, INC.	265 S.E.2d 61	44
1987	Brown v. Coastal Emergency Services, Inc.	354 S.E.2d 632	43
1984	Richardson v. Palmour Court Apartments	316 S.E.2d 770	42
1982	Washington v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company	288 S.E.2d 343	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,953 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 Harold Banke on?: Harold Banke is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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29 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).