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 1954 / Served to 1954

Homer Sutton

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Homer Sutton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1954. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1961
Tenure: 1954–1954

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1954	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sutton authored 17 published opinions for the court (1954). Most cited: Anderson v. Anderson (15 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. 8 of these were attributed to Sutton 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
1954	Anderson v. Anderson	80 S.E.2d 807	15
1954	Heard v. Helms	82 S.E.2d 129	9
1954	Day v. Day	81 S.E.2d 6	9
1954	Lively v. Grinstead	80 S.E.2d 316	9
1954	Gaulding v. Gaulding	81 S.E.2d 830	7
1954	Brown v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.	82 S.E.2d 12	5
1954	Williams v. Smith	80 S.E.2d 289	3
1954	Jones v. Andrews	82 S.E.2d 503	2
1954	Gary v. Johnson†	210 Ga. 686	1
1954	Atha v. Atha†	210 Ga. 540	1
1954	FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. v. Owen	80 S.E.2d 169	1
1954	First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Owen†	210 Ga. 424	1
1954	Johnson v. Gunder†	210 Ga. 419	1
1954	Brown v. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.†	210 Ga. 586	0
1954	Griner v. Lindsey†	210 Ga. 563	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 17 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 Homer Sutton on?: Homer Sutton was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1954. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).