How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.

Court of Appeals of Georgia / Joined 1961 / Served to 1962

William Vance Custer Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

William Vance Custer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia, who joined the court in 1961. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1962
Tenure: 1961–1962

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1961	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Education

Oglethorpe University

Judicial Record

In our data, Custer authored 13 published opinions for the court (1961–1962). Most cited: Redding v. Sinclair Refining Co. (46 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. 5 of these were attributed to Custer 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
1962	Redding v. Sinclair Refining Co.	124 S.E.2d 688	46
1962	Maloof v. Blackmon	124 S.E.2d 441	31
1962	Scott v. Oxford	124 S.E.2d 420	17
1962	McFarland v. Business Men's Assurance Co. of America	124 S.E.2d 432	10
1961	Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance v. Morgan	123 S.E.2d 433	9
1962	Bush v. City of Gainesville	124 S.E.2d 667	8
1962	Jacobs v. Felmet†	105 Ga. App. 234	4
1962	Hearing v. Johnson†	105 Ga. App. 408	3
1961	Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance v. Harrison	123 S.E.2d 438	3
1961	Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance v. Perkins†	104 Ga. App. 902	3
1962	Lundin v. Hill	125 S.E.2d 105	2
1962	Goodwin v. Rockett†	105 Ga. App. 215	0
1961	Bankers Fidelity Life Insurance v. Stegins†	104 Ga. App. 901	0

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 Court of Appeals of Georgia reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is nonpartisan election.
Which court was William Vance Custer Jr. on?: William Vance Custer Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1961. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).