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The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Supreme Court of Georgia / Joined 1938 / Served to 1969

W Henry Duckworth

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

W Henry Duckworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1938. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1894–1969
Tenure: 1938–1969 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1938	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Duckworth authored 1,388 published opinions for the court (1938–1969), plus 129 dissents and 45 concurrences. Most cited: Ginn v. Morgan (140 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. 580 of these were attributed to Duckworth 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
1969	Ginn v. Morgan	167 S.E.2d 393	140
1940	Lewis v. Foy	6 S.E.2d 788	103
1964	Crutcher v. Crawford Land Co., Inc.	138 S.E.2d 580	97
1940	Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Griggs	9 S.E.2d 84	90
1962	Dependable Insurance Co. v. Gibbs· Dissent†	127 S.E.2d 454	84
1950	Ford Motor Co. v. Abercrombie	62 S.E.2d 209	84
1943	Andrews v. State	26 S.E.2d 263	84
1943	Lewis v. State	27 S.E.2d 659	80
1959	Davis v. United American Life Insurance	111 S.E.2d 488	79
1939	Roberts v. Barwick†	187 Ga. 691	75
1966	Moore v. State· Dissent†	146 S.E.2d 895	74
1947	Thompson v. Talmadge	41 S.E.2d 883	70
1946	Poultryland Inc. v. Anderson	37 S.E.2d 785	68
1942	Delta Air Corporation v. Kersey	20 S.E.2d 245	68
1946	Thompson v. Eastern Air Lines Inc.	39 S.E.2d 225	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,564 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 W Henry Duckworth on?: W Henry Duckworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

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31 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).