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 1961 / Served to 1974

Homer Christian Eberhardt

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Homer Christian Eberhardt was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1904–1975
Tenure: 1961–1974 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

University of Georgia
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eberhardt authored 972 published opinions for the court (1961–1974), plus 40 dissents and 70 concurrences. Most cited: Maloy v. Dixon (123 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. 397 of these were attributed to Eberhardt 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
1972	Maloy v. Dixon	193 S.E.2d 19	123
1966	Hoard v. Wiley· Concurrence†	147 S.E.2d 782	120
1966	Cabaniss v. Hipsley	151 S.E.2d 496	108
1964	Gibson v. Consolidated Credit Corp.	138 S.E.2d 77	101
1969	Chandler v. Gately	167 S.E.2d 697	97
1966	Nathan v. Duncan	149 S.E.2d 383	92
1971	Spivey v. Mayson	186 S.E.2d 154	88
1973	Parris & Son, Inc. v. Campbell	196 S.E.2d 334	82
1974	Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. J. B. Forrest & Sons, Inc.	209 S.E.2d 6	80
1968	Bennett v. Associated Food Stores, Inc.	165 S.E.2d 581	73
1965	Young Men's Christian Assn. v. Bailey	146 S.E.2d 324	68
1970	Wright v. Dilbeck· Concurrence†	176 S.E.2d 715	65
1972	Thompson v. Maslia	195 S.E.2d 238	63
1967	Smith v. Wood	154 S.E.2d 646	63
1968	Hunter v. A-1 Bonding Service, Inc.	164 S.E.2d 246	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,083 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 Homer Christian Eberhardt on?: Homer Christian Eberhardt was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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13 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).