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 1922 / Served to 1932

Reason Chesnutt Bell

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Reason Chesnutt Bell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1922. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1922–1932 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1922	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bell authored 1,029 published opinions for the court (1922–1932), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Sumrell (136 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. 1,038 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
1923	New Amsterdam Casualty Co. v. Sumrell†	30 Ga. App. 682	136
1923	New Zealand Fire Insurance v. Brewer†	29 Ga. App. 773	71
1923	Southeastern Express Co. v. Edmondson†	30 Ga. App. 697	66
1929	King Hardware Co. v. Ennis†	39 Ga. App. 355	63
1923	Davis v. Whitcomb†	30 Ga. App. 497	62
1924	Reaves v. Columbus Electric & Power Co.†	32 Ga. App. 140	61
1923	Moore v. Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co.†	30 Ga. App. 466	59
1932	Tarbutton v. Duggan†	45 Ga. App. 31	51
1923	Petree v. Davison-Paxon-Stokes Co.†	30 Ga. App. 490	49
1924	Hotel Equipment Co. v. Liddell†	32 Ga. App. 590	45
1931	Mann v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.†	43 Ga. App. 708	42
1932	Bulloch v. Bulloch†	45 Ga. App. 1	41
1926	Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Reed†	35 Ga. App. 538	40
1927	American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Hardy†	36 Ga. App. 487	39
1924	Haas & Howell v. Godby†	33 Ga. App. 218	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,039 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 Reason Chesnutt Bell on?: Reason Chesnutt Bell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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10 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).