George Ernest Tidwell (August 1, 1931 – August 4, 2011) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
George Ernest Tidwell
Georgia Northern District Court
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Born 1931 in Atlanta, GA
Died 2011 in Hilton Head Island, SC
FJC ID: 2386
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 3/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 21/year
Georgia Northern District Court · 1979–2011
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Superior Court of Georgia, Atlanta Judicial CircuitJudge · 1971–1979
- Fulton County [Georgia] Civil CourtJudge · 1968–1971
State of GeorgiaExecutive assistant attorney general · 1966–1968- Private practice, Atlanta, Georgia1954–1966
- Georgia House of RepresentativesLegal aide to floor leader · 1964–1966
- State Bar of GeorgiaAssociate general counsel · 1965–1966
Appointments
1979–2011 · Appointed by Jimmy Carter (Democratic)Term ended: Death
Education
LL.B. · 1954