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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1974 / Served to 1979

Robert Howell Hall

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Robert Howell Hall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1974. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1995
Tenure: 1974–1979 · 5 yrs
Education: University of Georgia 1941

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–
1974	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

University of Virginia-Main Campus
University of Georgia	B.S.	1941

Judicial Record

In our data, Hall authored 665 published opinions for the court (1961–1979), plus 92 dissents and 100 concurrences. Most cited: Johnson v. State (743 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. 857 of these were attributed to Hall 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
1976	Johnson v. State†	238 Ga. 59	743
1977	Hawes v. State· Concurrence†	240 S.E.2d 833	237
1962	McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance†	129 S.E.2d 408	213
1975	Bethay v. State· Concurrence†	219 S.E.2d 743	171
1975	Patterson v. State†	213 S.E.2d 612	153
1977	State v. Chambers†	239 S.E.2d 324	150
1975	Chenault v. State· Concurrence†	215 S.E.2d 223	134
1979	White v. State†	253 S.E.2d 694	129
1975	Berryhill v. State†	221 S.E.2d 185	109
1970	Wakefield v. AR Winter Co., Inc.†	174 S.E.2d 178	108
1976	State v. Middlebrooks†	222 S.E.2d 343	107
1973	Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Stevens†	203 S.E.2d 587	107
1976	Ellington v. Tolar Consruction Co.†	227 S.E.2d 336	102
1978	Culwell v. Lomas & Nettleton Company†	248 S.E.2d 641	101
1977	Drake v. State†	236 S.E.2d 748	101

Showing the 15 most-cited of 857 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 Robert Howell Hall on?: Robert Howell Hall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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5 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).