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 1949 / Served to 1960

J Harold Hawkins

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

J Harold Hawkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1949. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1961
Tenure: 1949–1960 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1949	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hawkins authored 489 published opinions for the court (1949–1960), plus 19 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Bacon v. State (223 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. 153 of these were attributed to Hawkins 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
1952	Bacon v. State	71 S.E.2d 615	223
1955	Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell	88 S.E.2d 6	111
1949	Pippin v. State	53 S.E.2d 482	82
1956	Hornbuckle v. Plantation Pipe Line Co.	93 S.E.2d 727	60
1951	Royals v. State· Dissent†	65 S.E.2d 158	58
1959	Allen v. State	111 S.E.2d 70	54
1960	Pinkard v. Mendel	117 S.E.2d 336	53
1958	Velkey v. Grimes	105 S.E.2d 224	51
1952	Fried v. Fried	69 S.E.2d 862	49
1953	Brown v. Brown	75 S.E.2d 13	47
1954	Humthlett v. Reeves	85 S.E.2d 25	43
1952	Price v. State	69 S.E.2d 253	42
1951	Harrison v. Harrison	65 S.E.2d 173	42
1955	Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Godard	86 S.E.2d 311	41
1952	Jackson v. Brown	70 S.E.2d 756	41

Showing the 15 most-cited of 513 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 J Harold Hawkins on?: J Harold Hawkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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11 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).