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 1952 / Served to 1963

Ira Carlisle

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Ira Carlisle was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1885–1973
Tenure: 1952–1963 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Carlisle authored 883 published opinions for the court (1952–1963), plus 8 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: ROYAL INSURANCE CO., LTD. v. Cohen (41 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. 413 of these were attributed to Carlisle 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
1962	ROYAL INSURANCE CO., LTD. v. Cohen	125 S.E.2d 709	41
1963	Thomas v. Barnett	131 S.E.2d 818	40
1960	Long Construction Co. v. Ryals	115 S.E.2d 726	40
1958	Atlanta Joint Terminals v. Knight· Dissent†	106 S.E.2d 417	40
1962	Morrison v. Bowen	127 S.E.2d 194	38
1959	Leonard v. Firemen's Insurance	111 S.E.2d 773	38
1954	Pilgreen v. Hanson	81 S.E.2d 18	38
1952	Sammons v. Webb· Dissent†	71 S.E.2d 832	37
1952	Lassiter v. Poss	70 S.E.2d 411	35
1956	Horne v. State	91 S.E.2d 824	34
1960	Garland v. State of Georgia	114 S.E.2d 176	33
1960	Victoria Corp. v. Atlanta Merchandise Mart, Inc.	112 S.E.2d 793	32
1962	Porter v. Patterson	129 S.E.2d 70	29
1952	JC Lewis Motor Co. Inc. v. Williams	69 S.E.2d 816	29
1956	Moore v. State	94 S.E.2d 80	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 893 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 Ira Carlisle on?: Ira Carlisle was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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11 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).