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 2009 / Active

Sara Doyle

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

Sara Doyle is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Doyle authored 834 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 8 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Powell v. State (68 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. 494 of these were attributed to Doyle 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
2011	Powell v. State	712 S.E.2d 139	68
2010	Amica v. State	704 S.E.2d 831	67
2015	Shoenthal v. Shoenthal†	333 Ga. App. 729	48
2013	Montgomery v. Bank of America· Concurrence†	321 Ga. App. 343	41
2009	Cohen v. Cohen	684 S.E.2d 94	38
2009	Chandler v. OPENSIDED MRI OF ATLANTA, LLC· Concurrence†	682 S.E.2d 165	37
2013	Monitronics International, Inc. v. Veasley· Concurrence†	323 Ga. App. 126	33
2010	Hankla v. Jackson	699 S.E.2d 610	32
2010	Long v. Long	692 S.E.2d 811	32
2011	Core LaVista, LLC v. Cumming	709 S.E.2d 336	31
2009	Leo v. Waffle House, Inc.	681 S.E.2d 258	30
2013	Bedsole v. Action Outdoor Advertising JV, LLC†	325 Ga. App. 194	29
2010	R & R Insulation Services, Inc. v. Royal Indemnity Co.	705 S.E.2d 223	28
2018	In the INTEREST OF R. D. Et Al., Children.†	816 S.E.2d 132	27
2014	Walker v. the State†	329 Ga. App. 369	27

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 Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court is Sara Doyle on?: Sara Doyle is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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17 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).