List of Justices of the Alabama Supreme Court

Following is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama.[1]

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Current Justices

JusticeYear Service BeganLaw School
Will Sellers
2017
University of Alabama School of Law
Alisa Kelli Wise
2011
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
Tommy Bryan
2013
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
Lyn Stuart
2001
University of Alabama School of Law
James Allen Main
2011
University of Alabama School of Law
Michael F. Bolin
2005
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law
Tom Parker
2005
Vanderbilt University School of Law
Brady E. Mendheim Jr.
2018
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law
Greg Shaw
2009
Samford University, Cumberland School of Law

Chief Justices

JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Lyn Stuart2016present
Charles R. Malone20112013[2]
Sue Bell Cobb 20072011
Drayton Nabers 20042007[3]
Roy S. Moore 2001
2013		2003[4]
2016[5]
Perry O. Hooper, Sr. 19952001
Ernest C. Hornsby 19891995
Clement Clay Torbert, Jr. 19771989
Howell T. Heflin 19711977
J. Ed Livingston 19511971
Lucien D. Gardner 19401951
John C. Anderson19141940
James R. Dowdell 19091914
Samuel D. Weakley 19061906
John R. Tyson 19061909
Thomas N. McClellan 18941906
George W. Stone 18841894
Robert C. Brickell 18741884
Thomas Minott Peters 18731874
E. Woolsey Peck 18681873
Abram Joseph Walker 18591868
George Goldthwaite 18561856
Samuel F. Rice 18561859
William Parish Chilton 18521856
Edmund Strother Dargan 18491852
Arthur F. Hopkins 18371837
Henry W. Collier 18371849
Henry Hitchcock 18361837
Reuben Saffold 18341836
Abner Smith Lipscomb 18231834
Clement Comer Clay 18201823

Associate Justices

JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Henry Y. Webb18201823
Samuel D. Weakley19061907
Richard Wilde Walker18561866
Richard Wilde Walker, Jr.18911892
Abram Joseph Walker1856
1863		1859
1868
John R. Tyson18981906
Harry I. Thornton18341836
W. S. Thorington18921892
William H. Thomas19141945
John M. Taylor18251834
George W. Stone1856
1876		1864
1884
Henry B. Steagall II19861995
Davis F. Stakely19431962
Norman T. Spann19561957
Henderson M. Somerville18801890
R. T. Simpson19041912
Robert Tennent Simpson, Jr.19441972
Janie L. Shores19751999
Henry A. Sharpe18981906
Anthony D. Sayre19091931
Benjamin F. Saffold18681874
Samuel F. Rice18531856
John D. Phelan18511854
Thomas M. Peters18681873
Sion L. Perry18281831
John J. Ormond18371847
B. M. Miller19201927
Pelham J. Merrill19531976
Thomas C. McClellan19061923
Thomas N. McClellan18891898
Daniel T. McCall, Jr.19691975
James J. Mayfield19541956
J. J. Mayfield19081920
Amos R. Manning18741880
Alva Hugh Maddox19692001
J. Ed Livingston19401951
Abner Smith Lipscomb18201823
David P. Ligon18511854
Thomas S. Lawson19421972
John B. Kohn19681968
Thomas E. Knight19311942
Thomas J. Judge1863
1874		1867
1876
Richard L. Jones19731991
Kenneth F. Ingram19911997
J. Gorman Houston, Jr.19852005
Arthur F. Hopkins18361837
J. B. Head18921898
Robert B. Harwood19621975
Edward deGraffenried19121914
John L. Goodwyn19511968
Lucien D. Gardner19141940
Arthur B. Foster19281953
James H. Faulkner19731986
A. A. Evans19091910
T. Eric Embry19751985
James R. Dowdell18981909
N. D. Denson19041909
Edmund Strother Dargan18471849
Henry W. Collier1828
1836		1831
1837
James S. Coleman19571975
Thomas W. Coleman18901898
Preston C. Clayton19531954
Clement Comer Clay18431843
William Parish Chilton18471852
William M. Byrd18631867
Joel B. Brown1920
1927		1921
1953
Robert C. Brickell18731874
James N. Bloodworth19681980
Samuel A. Beatty19761989
John C. Anderson19041914
Reneau P. Almon19751999
Oscar W. Adams, Jr.19801993
Richard Ellis18201831
Reuben Saffold18201834
Anderson Crenshaw18211831
John Gayle18231828
Henry Minor18231831
John White18251831
Henry Hitchcock18341836
Henry Goldthwaite18371847
Silas Parsons18491851
George Goldthwaite18511856
Daniel Coleman18511898
Lyman Gibbons18521854
David Clopton18841892
Jonathan Haralson18821906
Ormond Somerville (I)19101928
Virgil Bouldin19231944
Ormond Somerville (II)19721972
Mark Kennedy19891999
Ralph Cook19932001
Harold See19972008
Jean Brown19992005
Patricia M. Smith20052011
Champ Lyons19982011
R. Bernard Harwood, Jr20012007
Terry L. Butts19951998

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Governor Bob Riley appointed Nabers Chief Justice on June 22, 2004 to fill Roy Moore's unexpired term.
  4. ↑ Moore was removed from office on 13 November 2003, and Justice J. Gorman Houston, Jr. became Acting Chief Justice, Moore was re-elected to the Court in 2012.
  5. ↑ On 30 September 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 25 May 2017.
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