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 1972 / Served to 1977

Irwin W. Stolz Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Irwin W. Stolz Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1972–1977 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

University of Georgia
Emory University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stolz authored 624 published opinions for the court (1972–1977), plus 26 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: Berman v. Rubin (77 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. 256 of these were attributed to Stolz 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
1976	Berman v. Rubin	227 S.E.2d 802	77
1974	Warner v. Arnold	210 S.E.2d 350	65
1976	Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Booker	230 S.E.2d 70	62
1976	Clark v. State	226 S.E.2d 89	57
1976	Wilhite v. Mays	232 S.E.2d 141	55
1976	Ingram v. State	224 S.E.2d 527	46
1972	Jones v. State	192 S.E.2d 171	45
1973	First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Kunes· Dissent†	197 S.E.2d 446	44
1976	McDow v. Dixon	226 S.E.2d 145	43
1974	Von Waldner v. Baldwin/Cheshire, Inc.	209 S.E.2d 715	42
1974	Partain v. Maddox	206 S.E.2d 618	40
1973	Bell v. State	196 S.E.2d 894	40
1972	Eschen v. Roney· Concurrence†	194 S.E.2d 589	40
1976	UIV CORP. v. Oswald	229 S.E.2d 512	39
1977	General Motors Corp. v. Davis	233 S.E.2d 825	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 670 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 Irwin W. Stolz Jr. on?: Irwin W. Stolz Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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5 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).