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 1933 / Served to 1940

John Benjamin Guerry

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

John Benjamin Guerry was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1933. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1882–1940
Tenure: 1933–1940 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1933	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Mercer University
Mercer University

Judicial Record

In our data, Guerry authored 814 published opinions for the court (1933–1940), plus 34 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Cook v. Southern Railway Co. (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. 768 of these were attributed to Guerry 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
1936	Cook v. Southern Railway Co.†	53 Ga. App. 723	61
1939	Roadway Express Inc. v. McBroom	6 S.E.2d 460	50
1938	Graham v. Cleveland†	58 Ga. App. 810	50
1936	Dawson Motor Co. v. Petty†	53 Ga. App. 746	41
1935	Tybee Amusement Co. v. Odum†	51 Ga. App. 1	41
1936	Taylor v. Morgan†	54 Ga. App. 426	40
1933	Scott v. Rich's Inc.· Concurrence†	47 Ga. App. 548	39
1933	Hearn v. Batchelor†	47 Ga. App. 213	36
1936	Stephens v. Waits†	53 Ga. App. 44	33
1939	Dobbs v. Perlman†	59 Ga. App. 770	31
1934	Rogers v. Sinclair Refining Co.†	49 Ga. App. 72	31
1937	Hunt v. Pollard†	55 Ga. App. 423	29
1940	Wright v. Southern Railway Co.	7 S.E.2d 793	27
1938	Cheatham v. State†	57 Ga. App. 858	27
1937	Austin v. General Accident, Fire, & Life Assurance Corp.†	56 Ga. App. 481	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 884 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 John Benjamin Guerry on?: John Benjamin Guerry was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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7 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).