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 1917 / Served to 1937

William Franklin Jenkins

Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia

William Franklin Jenkins was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia (14 judges, selected by nonpartisan election), who joined the court in 1917. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1917–1937 · 20 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1917	Court of Appeals of Georgia	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jenkins authored 2,118 published opinions for the court (1917–1936), plus 38 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: Southern Railway Co. v. Slaton (79 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. 2,179 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
1930	Southern Railway Co. v. Slaton†	41 Ga. App. 759	79
1917	Napier v. Strong†	19 Ga. App. 401	71
1923	Crossgrove v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad†	30 Ga. App. 462	69
1917	Tinsley v. Gullett Gin Co.†	21 Ga. App. 512	61
1923	Harris v. Reid†	30 Ga. App. 187	60
1917	Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Larsen†	19 Ga. App. 413	58
1932	Yearwood v. Peabody†	45 Ga. App. 451	57
1921	Riley & Co. v. London Guaranty & Accident Co.†	27 Ga. App. 686	57
1926	Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance v. Lee†	36 Ga. App. 248	56
1933	Georgia Power Co. v. Kinard†	47 Ga. App. 483	55
1921	Fincher v. Davis†	27 Ga. App. 494	53
1922	Willingham, Wright & Covington v. Glover†	28 Ga. App. 394	52
1936	Laseter v. Clark†	54 Ga. App. 669	51
1935	Eddleman v. Askew†	50 Ga. App. 540	51
1935	Eubanks v. Mullis· Dissent†	51 Ga. App. 728	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,185 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 Franklin Jenkins on?: William Franklin Jenkins was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Sources

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20 years on the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).