Incumbents Charlie Bethel, Sarah Hawkins Warren, and Ben Land defeated challengers Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan in the general election for Georgia Supreme Court on May 19, 2026. Bethel ran against Rankin. Warren ran against Jordan. Land was unopposed.
The election was officially nonpartisan. Republican governors appointed each of the three incumbents. Both challengers ran with support from the Democratic Party of Georgia. Georgia Public Broadcasting's Sarah Kallis quoted state party chair Charlie Bailey as saying, "[i]t's the most money that the Georgia Democratic Party has spent in judicial races in 20 years."
The Georgia Recorder's Maya Homan said, "advocacy groups on both ends of the political spectrum are working to cast the election as a referendum over abortion rights." Bolts' Alex Burness said after the Supreme Court of the United States' ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that "[b]y 2028, it’s entirely possible that Georgia’s high court will already have heard important election cases. Voting rights advocates are bracing for that." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Rosie Manins said, "[r]esearch by local litigators suggests there hasn’t been a sitting justice lose reelection in more than 100 years in [Georgia]."
