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 1980 / Served to 1992

John Woodward Sognier

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

John Woodward Sognier was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1919–2013
Tenure: 1980–1992 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sognier authored 2,331 published opinions for the court (1978–1992), plus 97 dissents and 60 concurrences. Most cited: Westwind Corporation v. Washington Federal Savings & Loan Association (170 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. 1,039 of these were attributed to Sognier 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
1990	Westwind Corporation v. Washington Federal Savings & Loan Association	393 S.E.2d 479	170
1981	Pound v. Augusta National, Inc.	279 S.E.2d 342	102
1991	Hunter v. State· Dissent†	413 S.E.2d 526	93
1984	Ford Motor Co. v. Stubblefield	319 S.E.2d 470	93
1983	Chadwick v. Miller· Concurrence†	312 S.E.2d 835	68
1985	Cooper v. State	325 S.E.2d 877	67
1981	Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Newton	278 S.E.2d 85	67
1990	Rolleston v. Huite· Concurrence†	400 S.E.2d 349	61
1982	St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Mitchell	296 S.E.2d 126	61
1991	In the Interest of J. M. C.	410 S.E.2d 368	60
1990	Joyce v. Van Arsdale	395 S.E.2d 275	60
1992	Rogers v. State	426 S.E.2d 209	55
1987	F. A. F. Motor Cars, Inc. v. Childers	354 S.E.2d 6	53
1990	Hall v. State	396 S.E.2d 271	52
1981	Tanner v. State· Concurrence†	287 S.E.2d 268	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,488 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 Woodward Sognier on?: John Woodward Sognier was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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12 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).