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 1977 / Served to 1981

Jesse G. Bowles

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Jesse G. Bowles was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1977. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–2007
Tenure: 1977–1981 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bowles authored 330 published opinions for the court (1977–1980), plus 17 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon (437 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. 121 of these were attributed to Bowles 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
1980	Alterman Foods, Inc. v. Ligon	272 S.E.2d 327	437
1980	State v. Johnson	272 S.E.2d 321	203
1980	Moses v. State	263 S.E.2d 916	177
1978	Potts v. State	243 S.E.2d 510	157
1977	State v. Chambers· Dissent†	239 S.E.2d 324	150
1979	Allen Kane's Major Dodge, Inc. v. Barnes	257 S.E.2d 186	148
1979	Jones v. State	256 S.E.2d 907	117
1979	Scott v. State	253 S.E.2d 698	109
1978	Miree v. United States	249 S.E.2d 573	103
1978	Alderman v. State	246 S.E.2d 642	98
1980	Fair v. State	268 S.E.2d 316	92
1980	Snell v. State	272 S.E.2d 348	90
1979	Davis v. State	252 S.E.2d 443	89
1977	Meade v. Heimanson	236 S.E.2d 357	85
1978	General Electric Credit Corp. v. Brooks	249 S.E.2d 596	82

Showing the 15 most-cited of 354 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 Jesse G. Bowles on?: Jesse G. Bowles was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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4 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).