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 1942 / Served to 1942

Samuel D. Hewlett

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Samuel D. Hewlett was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1942. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1942–1942

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1942	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hewlett authored 18 published opinions for the court (1942). Most cited: Dejarnette v. Hospital Authority of Albany (31 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. 3 of these were attributed to Hewlett 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
1942	Dejarnette v. Hospital Authority of Albany	23 S.E.2d 716	31
1942	Hughes v. Cobb	23 S.E.2d 701	31
1942	Forrester v. Interstate Hosiery Mills Inc.	23 S.E.2d 78	15
1942	MacOn, Dublin & Savannah Railroad Co. v. Porter	22 S.E.2d 818	12
1942	Manry v. First National Bank	23 S.E.2d 662	9
1942	Pass v. Pass	23 S.E.2d 697	7
1942	Mills v. Tyus	23 S.E.2d 259	6
1942	Daniel v. Etheredge	22 S.E.2d 807	5
1942	Hicks v. Shropshire	22 S.E.2d 793	4
1942	Churchwell v. State	22 S.E.2d 824	4
1942	Huling v. Huling	22 S.E.2d 832	3
1942	Floyd v. Farish	23 S.E.2d 258	1
1942	Beacham v. Beacham	22 S.E.2d 787	1
1942	Pace v. Horton	22 S.E.2d 805	1
1942	First National Bank of Rome v. Howell	23 S.E.2d 415	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 Samuel D. Hewlett on?: Samuel D. Hewlett was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1942. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).