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 1943 / Served to 1946

R. C. Bell

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

R. C. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1943. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1943–1946 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1943	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bell authored 230 published opinions for the court (1942–1946), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Williams v. Grier (143 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. 43 of these were attributed to Bell 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
1943	Williams v. Grier	26 S.E.2d 698	143
1944	City of Valdosta v. Singleton	28 S.E.2d 759	92
1945	McCann v. Glynn Lumber Company	34 S.E.2d 839	80
1942	Livingston v. Barnett	19 S.E.2d 385	63
1944	Stegall v. Southwest Ga. Housing Authority	30 S.E.2d 196	62
1943	Emmett v. State	25 S.E.2d 9	53
1943	Preston v. National Life & Accident Insurance	26 S.E.2d 439	50
1946	Toler v. Goodin	37 S.E.2d 609	44
1943	Brown v. Farkas	25 S.E.2d 411	42
1944	Fowler v. Grimes	31 S.E.2d 174	37
1944	Robinson v. Murray	32 S.E.2d 496	36
1943	Fortson v. Fortson	25 S.E.2d 518	36
1943	Kalb v. State	25 S.E.2d 24	36
1944	Stegall v. Southwest Georgia Regional Housing Authority†	197 Ga. 571	35
1943	Huiet v. Schwob Manufacturing Co.	27 S.E.2d 743	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 245 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 R. C. Bell on?: R. C. Bell was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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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).