How do judges of the Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1979 / Served to 1994

Harold G. Clarke

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Harold G. Clarke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2013
Tenure: 1979–1994 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Clarke authored 735 published opinions for the court (1980–1994), plus 34 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins (2,024 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. 218 of these were attributed to Clarke 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	Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins	405 S.E.2d 474	2,024
1983	Brown v. State†	250 Ga. 862	240
1983	Flewellen v. Atlanta Casualty Co.	300 S.E.2d 673	236
1991	Mallory v. State	409 S.E.2d 839	221
1992	Earnest v. State	422 S.E.2d 188	182
1989	Claussen v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	380 S.E.2d 686	172
1980	Southeast Ceramics, Inc. v. Klem	271 S.E.2d 199	161
1981	Clarke v. Zant	275 S.E.2d 49	152
1989	Fleming v. Zant	386 S.E.2d 339	141
1980	Jackson v. State	271 S.E.2d 855	141
1980	Hennessy v. Webb	264 S.E.2d 878	141
1986	Romine v. State	350 S.E.2d 446	135
1983	Robert & Company Associates v. Rhodes-Haverty Partnership	300 S.E.2d 503	133
1982	Brown v. State	295 S.E.2d 727	129
1990	Renner v. State· Dissent†	397 S.E.2d 683	120

Showing the 15 most-cited of 791 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 Supreme Court of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was Harold G. Clarke on?: Harold G. Clarke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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15 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).