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 1917 / Served to 1932

Roscoe Luke

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Roscoe Luke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1880–1949
Tenure: 1917–1932 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Luke authored 2,460 published opinions for the court (1917–1932), plus 89 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Trammell v. Shirley (77 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. 2,553 of these were attributed to Luke 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
1928	Trammell v. Shirley†	38 Ga. App. 710	77
1921	Epps v. Parrish†	26 Ga. App. 399	76
1917	Heyman v. Heyman†	19 Ga. App. 634	50
1924	Austin Bros. Bridge Co. v. Whitmire†	31 Ga. App. 560	49
1924	Darnell v. Shirley†	31 Ga. App. 764	48
1926	Peavy v. Peavy†	36 Ga. App. 202	42
1918	Bonner v. Standard Oil Co.†	22 Ga. App. 532	39
1930	Holloman v. Henry Grady Hotel Co.†	42 Ga. App. 347	38
1919	May v. State· Concurrence†	24 Ga. App. 379	37
1929	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Adams†	39 Ga. App. 577	32
1918	Rheney v. Anderson†	22 Ga. App. 417	31
1931	Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. Dean†	43 Ga. App. 67	28
1919	Barnes v. State· Concurrence†	24 Ga. App. 372	24
1917	State Mutual Life Insurance v. Forrest†	19 Ga. App. 296	24
1917	Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Thompson· Dissent†	20 Ga. App. 706	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,554 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 Roscoe Luke on?: Roscoe Luke was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

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15 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).