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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1977 / Served to 1989

Thomas O. Marshall

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

Thomas O. Marshall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1977. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1920–2003
Tenure: 1977–1989 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–
1977	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Education

Emory University
University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Marshall authored 1,224 published opinions for the court (1974–1989), plus 40 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Hawes v. State (237 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. 373 of these were attributed to Marshall 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
1977	Hawes v. State	240 S.E.2d 833	237
1983	Flewellen v. Atlanta Casualty Co.· Dissent†	300 S.E.2d 673	236
1986	Cargill v. State	340 S.E.2d 891	172
1983	Castell v. State	301 S.E.2d 234	169
1986	Chancey v. State	349 S.E.2d 717	154
1982	Hines v. State	290 S.E.2d 911	153
1977	Peek v. State	238 S.E.2d 12	127
1982	Rivers v. State	298 S.E.2d 1	120
1978	Johnson v. State	250 S.E.2d 394	113
1983	Mincey v. State	304 S.E.2d 882	110
1978	Stephens v. Hopper· Concurrence†	247 S.E.2d 92	101
1988	Foster v. State	374 S.E.2d 188	98
1983	McAuley v. Wills	303 S.E.2d 258	98
1979	Gunter v. State· Dissent†	256 S.E.2d 341	96
1985	Ross v. State	326 S.E.2d 194	95

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,272 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 O. Marshall on?: Thomas O. Marshall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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12 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).