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 1937 / Served to 1948

W Frank Jenkins

Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia

W Frank Jenkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, who joined the court in 1937. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1876–1961
Tenure: 1937–1948 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1937	Supreme Court of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jenkins authored 622 published opinions for the court (1937–1948), plus 21 dissents and 29 concurrences. Most cited: Bryant v. State (109 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. 225 of these were attributed to Jenkins 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
1941	Bryant v. State	13 S.E.2d 820	109
1941	Harris v. State	17 S.E.2d 573	86
1945	McCann v. Glynn Lumber Company· Dissent	34 S.E.2d 839	80
1938	Sumner v. Sumner†	186 Ga. 390	71
1947	Thompson v. Talmadge· Dissent	41 S.E.2d 883	70
1942	Delta Air Corporation v. Kersey· Dissent	20 S.E.2d 245	68
1940	Wilson v. State	10 S.E.2d 861	68
1938	Lankford v. Holton†	187 Ga. 94	66
1943	Pulliam v. State· Concurrence	28 S.E.2d 139	65
1941	Grant v. Hart	14 S.E.2d 860	62
1945	South View Cemetery Association v. Hailey	34 S.E.2d 863	58
1947	Hall v. State· Concurrence	44 S.E.2d 234	57
1942	Elder v. Camp	18 S.E.2d 622	55
1945	Shippen v. Folsom	35 S.E.2d 915	54
1940	Trustees of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital v. Nisbet	7 S.E.2d 737	54

Showing the 15 most-cited of 672 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 Frank Jenkins on?: W Frank Jenkins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Sources

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11 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).