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 1945 / Served to 1966

Thomas S. Candler

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Thomas S. Candler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1945. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1890–1971
Tenure: 1945–1966 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1945	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Young Harris College

Judicial Record

In our data, Candler authored 880 published opinions for the court (1943–1967), plus 25 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Joyner v. State (139 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. 231 of these were attributed to Candler 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
1951	Joyner v. State	67 S.E.2d 221	139
1957	Shea v. Phillips	98 S.E.2d 552	108
1958	Woodside v. City of Atlanta	103 S.E.2d 108	91
1952	Rivers v. Cole Corporation	73 S.E.2d 196	86
1966	Roach v. State	147 S.E.2d 299	81
1947	Thompson v. Talmadge· Dissent	41 S.E.2d 883	70
1965	Britten v. State	143 S.E.2d 176	63
1966	Salisbury v. State	146 S.E.2d 776	60
1946	Pressley v. State	39 S.E.2d 478	59
1955	Northwestern University v. Crisp	88 S.E.2d 26	58
1947	Hall v. State	44 S.E.2d 234	57
1946	Dade County v. State of Georgia	39 S.E.2d 473	56
1953	Grayson-Robinson Stores Inc. v. Oneida Ltd.	75 S.E.2d 161	55
1951	Calvary Independent Baptist Church v. City of Rome	66 S.E.2d 726	55
1951	Williams v. Harris	63 S.E.2d 386	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 908 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 Thomas S. Candler on?: Thomas S. Candler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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21 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).