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 1990 / Served to 2005

Norman S. Fletcher

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Norman S. Fletcher was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1990–2005 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fletcher authored 734 published opinions for the court (1990–2005), plus 103 dissents and 99 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. State (827 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. 372 of these were attributed to Fletcher 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
1991	Williams v. State	409 S.E.2d 649	827
1994	Gilbert v. Richardson	264 Ga. 744	428
1994	Tate v. State	264 Ga. 53	397
2001	Cameron v. Lang	549 S.E.2d 341	276
1994	Rebich v. Miles	264 Ga. 467	237
2000	Suggs v. State	526 S.E.2d 347	222
1994	Banks v. ICI Americas, Inc.· Concurrence†	264 Ga. 732	184
1998	Wall v. State· Concurrence†	500 S.E.2d 904	183
1997	DeYoung v. State· Concurrence†	493 S.E.2d 157	174
2002	Pfeiffer v. Georgia Department of Transportation	573 S.E.2d 389	171
1991	Yarbray v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.· Dissent†	409 S.E.2d 835	143
1993	City of Rome v. Jordan· Concurrence†	426 S.E.2d 861	142
1991	Crumbley v. State	409 S.E.2d 517	138
1995	Goodwin v. Cruz-Padillo· Dissent†	458 S.E.2d 623	135
1994	Edwards v. State	264 Ga. 131	135

Showing the 15 most-cited of 936 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 Norman S. Fletcher on?: Norman S. Fletcher was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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15 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).