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 2018 / Active

Sarah Hawkins Warren

Presiding Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Sarah Hawkins Warren is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Warren authored 29 published opinions for the court (2018–2019). Most cited: Venturino v. State (43 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. 29 of these were attributed to Warren 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
2019	Venturino v. State†	830 S.E.2d 110	43
2018	Jones v. State†	820 S.E.2d 696	41
2019	Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Loudermilk†	826 S.E.2d 116	40
2019	Roberts v. State†	824 S.E.2d 326	38
2019	Ivey v. State†	824 S.E.2d 242	34
2019	State v. Mondor†	830 S.E.2d 206	33
2019	Boyd v. State†	830 S.E.2d 160	32
2019	Wainwright v. State†	823 S.E.2d 749	32
2019	Dozier v. State†	829 S.E.2d 131	29
2019	Yarn v. State†	826 S.E.2d 1	29
2019	Castillo-Velasquez v. State†	827 S.E.2d 257	26
2019	Coley v. State†	827 S.E.2d 241	24
2019	Tyner v. Matta-Troncoso†	826 S.E.2d 100	19
2019	Ware v. State†	826 S.E.2d 56	17
2019	Swanson v. State†	829 S.E.2d 312	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 29 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 is Sarah Hawkins Warren on?: Sarah Hawkins Warren is a Presiding Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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8 years on the Supreme Court of Georgia. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).