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 1975 / Served to 1986

Harold N. Hill

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Harold N. Hill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–2010
Tenure: 1975–1986 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 736 published opinions for the court (1920–1986), plus 175 dissents and 171 concurrences. Most cited: Smith v. Francis (406 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. 514 of these were attributed to Hill 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
1985	Smith v. Francis	325 S.E.2d 362	406
1984	State v. Thornton· Concurrence†	322 S.E.2d 711	372
1976	State v. Stonaker· Concurrence†	222 S.E.2d 354	349
1980	Timberlake v. State	271 S.E.2d 792	307
1980	Crawford v. State	245 Ga. 89	291
1984	Humphrey v. State	314 S.E.2d 436	267
1977	Hawes v. State· Concurrence†	240 S.E.2d 833	237
1983	Flewellen v. Atlanta Casualty Co.· Concurrence†	300 S.E.2d 673	236
1981	Smith v. State	277 S.E.2d 678	218
1975	Jarrell v. State	216 S.E.2d 258	209
1980	State v. Johnson· Dissent†	272 S.E.2d 321	203
1982	Momon v. State	294 S.E.2d 482	197
1976	Ridley v. State	223 S.E.2d 131	195
1985	Cuzzort v. State· Concurrence†	334 S.E.2d 661	181
1975	Bethay v. State	219 S.E.2d 743	171

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,082 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 N. Hill on?: Harold N. Hill was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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11 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).