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 1979 / Served to 1979

Norman L. Underwood

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Norman L. Underwood was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1941 · age 85
Tenure: 1979–1979

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

George Washington University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Underwood authored 120 published opinions for the court (1979), plus 1 dissent and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Turner v. State (59 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. 61 of these were attributed to Underwood 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
1979	Turner v. State	259 S.E.2d 171	59
1979	Lowe v. Pue	257 S.E.2d 209	27
1979	Brown v. Wilson Chevrolet-Olds, Inc.	258 S.E.2d 139	27
1979	Bradley v. Godwin	264 S.E.2d 262	24
1979	Autry v. State	258 S.E.2d 268	23
1979	Harris v. Collins	255 S.E.2d 107	23
1979	Konscol v. Konscol	261 S.E.2d 438	19
1979	Whisenhunt v. State	264 S.E.2d 271	17
1979	Dukes v. State	259 S.E.2d 706	16
1979	McCranie v. State	261 S.E.2d 779	13
1979	Wilson v. Professional Ins. Corp.	261 S.E.2d 450	13
1979	Minis v. State	258 S.E.2d 308	13
1979	Maxwell v. State	264 S.E.2d 254	12
1979	Murphine v. Hospital Authority of Floyd County	261 S.E.2d 457	12
1979	Cobb v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS & REVENUE OF TIFT COUNTY	260 S.E.2d 496	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 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 Norman L. Underwood on?: Norman L. Underwood was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1979. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).