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 1999 / Active

Herbert E. Phipps

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Herbert E. Phipps is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1999 · 27 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Morehouse College
Case Western Reserve University

Judicial Record

In our data, Phipps authored 2,056 published opinions for the court (1999–2018), plus 13 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Norton v. BUDGET RENT a CAR SYSTEM, INC. (84 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. 764 of these were attributed to Phipps 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
2010	Norton v. BUDGET RENT a CAR SYSTEM, INC.	705 S.E.2d 305	84
2010	English v. State	689 S.E.2d 130	76
2006	Aero Toy Store, LLC v. Grieves	631 S.E.2d 734	76
2013	Jones v. State†	322 Ga. App. 269	70
2006	Forest City Gun Club v. Chatham County	633 S.E.2d 623	58
2004	In the Interest of S. J.†	270 Ga. App. 598	51
2001	Hash v. State	546 S.E.2d 833	50
2008	Selvy v. Morrison	665 S.E.2d 401	49
2008	Quiroz v. State	662 S.E.2d 235	48
2005	Hendon Properties, LLC v. Cinema Development, LLC	620 S.E.2d 644	48
1999	Shepard v. Winn Dixie Stores, Inc.	527 S.E.2d 36	45
1999	Migliore v. State	525 S.E.2d 166	45
2000	Nelson & Hill, P.A. v. Wood	537 S.E.2d 670	44
2008	Allstate Insurance v. Sutton	658 S.E.2d 909	42
2001	In the Interest of T. F.†	250 Ga. App. 96	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,091 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 Herbert E. Phipps on?: Herbert E. Phipps is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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27 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).