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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1970 / Served to 1973

Peyton Hawes

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Peyton Hawes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1970. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1990
Tenure: 1970–1973 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hawes authored 194 published opinions for the court (1970–1973), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Whitlock v. State (133 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. 77 of these were attributed to Hawes 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
1973	Whitlock v. State	198 S.E.2d 865	133
1970	Henderson v. State	179 S.E.2d 76	103
1970	City of Jesup v. Bennett	176 S.E.2d 81	103
1973	Continental Casualty Co. v. Union Camp Corp.	195 S.E.2d 417	87
1973	Durham v. Stand-By Labor of Georgia, Inc.	198 S.E.2d 145	81
1973	Ambler v. Archer	196 S.E.2d 858	76
1973	White v. State	196 S.E.2d 849	75
1972	Dutton v. State	188 S.E.2d 794	70
1972	Scott v. State	192 S.E.2d 367	67
1971	Giordano v. Stubbs	184 S.E.2d 165	65
1973	Stull v. State	196 S.E.2d 7	64
1972	Barton v. Atkinson	187 S.E.2d 835	63
1971	Crowder v. Department of State Parks· Dissent†	185 S.E.2d 908	63
1971	Hart v. State	179 S.E.2d 346	60
1970	Plantation Pipe Line Co. v. City of Bremen· Dissent†	178 S.E.2d 863	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 208 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 Peyton Hawes on?: Peyton Hawes was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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3 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).