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 1932 / Served to 1954

I Homer Sutton

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

I Homer Sutton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1932. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1961
Tenure: 1932–1954 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1932	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sutton authored 1,626 published opinions for the court (1932–1954), plus 77 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Coffer v. Bradshaw (61 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. 889 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
1932	Coffer v. Bradshaw†	46 Ga. App. 143	61
1942	Morrow v. Southeastern Stages Inc.	22 S.E.2d 336	58
1947	Francis v. Newton	43 S.E.2d 282	55
1933	McCall v. McCallie†	48 Ga. App. 99	54
1935	Eubanks v. Mullis†	51 Ga. App. 728	50
1934	Regents of the University System v. Blanton†	49 Ga. App. 602	49
1933	Atlanta Hub Co. v. Jones†	47 Ga. App. 778	46
1939	McDaniel v. Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Co.†	60 Ga. App. 92	43
1937	Interstate Life & Accident Co. v. Brewer†	56 Ga. App. 599	43
1947	Wade v. Drinkard	45 S.E.2d 231	42
1937	Stansfield v. Gardner†	56 Ga. App. 634	42
1948	American Fidelity & Casualty Co. v. Farmer	48 S.E.2d 122	41
1932	Standard Accident Insurance v. Kiker†	45 Ga. App. 706	41
1935	Candler v. Smith†	50 Ga. App. 667	40
1934	Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. Bell†	49 Ga. App. 640	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,726 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 I Homer Sutton on?: I Homer Sutton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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22 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).