List of justices of the Alabama Supreme Court
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Following is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama.[1]
Current justices
[edit]| Justice | First elected | Next election | Party | Law school | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Parker | 2005
(Chief Justice since 2019) |
2024
|
Republican | Vanderbilt | |
| Greg Shaw | 2009
|
2026
|
Republican | Cumberland, University of Virginia | |
| Alisa Kelli Wise | 2011
|
2022
|
Republican | Thomas Goode Jones | |
| Tommy Bryan | 2013
|
2024
|
Republican | Thomas Goode Jones | |
| Will Sellers | 2017
|
2024
|
Republican | University of Alabama, New York University | |
| Brady E. Mendheim Jr. | 2018
|
2026
|
Republican | Cumberland | |
| Jay Mitchell | 2019
|
2024
|
Republican | University of Virginia | |
| Sarah Hicks Stewart | 2019
|
2024
|
Republican | Vanderbilt | |
| Greg Cook | 2022
|
2028
|
Republican | Harvard | |
Chief justices
[edit]| Judge | Began active service |
Ended active service |
| Clement Comer Clay | 1820 | 1823 |
| Abner Smith Lipscomb | 1823 | 1834 |
| Reuben Saffold | 1834 | 1836 |
| Henry Hitchcock | 1836 | 1837 |
| Arthur F. Hopkins | 1837 | 1837 |
| Henry W. Collier | 1837 | 1849 |
| Edmund S. Dargan | 1849 | 1852 |
| William Parish Chilton | 1852 | 1856 |
| George Goldthwaite | 1856 | 1856 |
| Samuel Farrow Rice | 1856 | 1859 |
| Abram Joseph Walker | 1859 | 1868 |
| E. Woolsey Peck | 1868 | 1873 |
| Thomas Minott Peters | 1873 | 1874 |
| Robert C. Brickell | 1874 1894 |
1884 1898 |
| George W. Stone | 1884 | 1894 |
| Thomas N. McClellan | 1898 | 1906 |
| Samuel D. Weakley | 1906 | 1907 |
| John R. Tyson | 1906 | 1909 |
| James R. Dowdell | 1909 | 1914 |
| John C. Anderson | 1914 | 1940 |
| Lucien D. Gardner | 1940 | 1951 |
| J. Ed Livingston | 1951 | 1971 |
| Howell Heflin | 1971 | 1977 |
| C. C. Torbert Jr. | 1977 | 1989 |
| Ernest C. Hornsby | 1989 | 1995 |
| Perry Hooper Sr. | 1995 | 2001 |
| Roy Moore | 2001 2013 |
2003[2] 2016[3] |
| Drayton Nabers Jr. | 2004 | 2007[4] |
| Sue Bell Cobb | 2007 | 2011 |
| Charles R. Malone | 2011 | 2013[5] |
| Lyn Stuart | 2016 | 2019 |
| Tom Parker | 2019 | present |
Associate justices
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "A history of the Alabama Judicial System" (PDF). Alabama Unified Judicial System. State of Alabama. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 14, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ^ Moore was removed from office on November 13. 2003, and Justice J. Gorman Houston Jr. became Acting Chief Justice, Moore was re-elected to the Court in 2012.
- ^ On September 30, 2016, Moore was suspended from office due to ethics violations. The decision was upheld by the Alabama Supreme Court in April 2017, whereupon Alabama Governor Kay Ivey appointed Justice Lyn Stuart to fill his seat. Jeremy Gray, "Gov. Kay Ivey appoints Lyn Stuart Alabama Chief Justice," Al.com, accessed May 25, 2017.
- ^ Governor Bob Riley appointed Nabers Chief Justice on June 22, 2004, to fill Roy Moore's unexpired term.
- ^ Governor Robert J. Bentley appointed Malone on August 1, 2011, to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Justice Cobb, defeated for re-nomination 2012.