List of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama

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

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Current justices

JusticeFirst electedNext electionPartyLaw school
Greg Shaw
2009
2026
 Republican Cumberland (JD) , University of Virginia (LLM)
Alisa Kelli Wise
2011
2022
 Republican Thomas Goode Jones
Tommy Bryan
2013
2030
 Republican Thomas Goode Jones
Will Sellers
2017
2030
 Republican University of Alabama (JD) , New York University (LLM)
Brady E. Mendheim Jr.
2018
2026
 Republican Cumberland
Sarah Hicks Stewart
2019
(Chief Justice since 2025)
2030
 Republican Vanderbilt
Greg Cook
2022
2028
 Republican Harvard
Chris McCool
2025
2030
 Republican University of Alabama
Bill Lewis
2025
2030
 Republican Cumberland

Chief justices

JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Clement Comer Clay 18201823
Abner Smith Lipscomb 18231834
Reuben Saffold 18341836
Henry Hitchcock 18361837
Arthur F. Hopkins 18371837
Henry W. Collier 18371849
Edmund S. Dargan 18491852
William Parish Chilton 18521856
George Goldthwaite 18561856
Samuel Farrow Rice 18561859
Abram Joseph Walker 18591868
E. Woolsey Peck 18681873
Thomas Minott Peters 18731874
Robert C. Brickell 1874
1894		1884
1898
George W. Stone 18841894
Thomas N. McClellan 18981906
Samuel D. Weakley 19061907
John R. Tyson 19061909
James R. Dowdell 19091914
John C. Anderson 19141940
Lucien D. Gardner 19401951
J. Ed Livingston 19511971
Howell Heflin 19711977
C. C. Torbert Jr. 19771989
Ernest C. Hornsby 19891995
Perry Hooper Sr. 19952001
Roy Moore 2001
2013		2003 [2]
2016 [3]
Drayton Nabers Jr. 20042007 [4]
Sue Bell Cobb 20072011
Charles R. Malone 20112013 [5]
Lyn Stuart 20162019
Tom Parker 20192025
Sarah Hicks Stewart 2025present

Associate justices

JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Henry Y. Webb 18201823
Abner Smith Lipscomb 18201823
Richard Ellis 18201831
Reuben Saffold 18201834
Anderson Crenshaw 18211831
John Gayle 18231828
Henry Minor 18231825
John White 18251831
John M. Taylor 18251834
Sion L. Perry 18281832
Henry W. Collier 1828
1836		1831
1837
Harry I. Thornton Sr. 18341836
Henry Hitchcock 18341836
Arthur F. Hopkins 18361837
John James Ormond 18371847
Henry Goldthwaite 18371847
Clement Comer Clay 18431843
Edmund S. Dargan 18471849
William Parish Chilton 18471852
Silas Parsons 18491851
Daniel Coleman 18511851
David G. Ligon 18511854
George Goldthwaite 18511856
Lyman Gibbons 18521854
John Dennis Phelan 1852
1864		1854
1866
Samuel Farrow Rice 18531856
Richard Wilde Walker 18561866
Abram Joseph Walker 18561859
George W. Stone 1856
1876		1864
1884
William M. Byrd 18661867
Thomas J. Judge 1866
1874		1867
1876
Thomas Minott Peters 18681873
Benjamin F. Saffold 18681874
Robert C. Brickell 18731874
Amos R. Manning 18741880
Henderson M. Somerville 18801890
Jonathan Haralson 18821906
David Clopton 18841892
Thomas N. McClellan 18891898
Thomas W. Coleman 18901898
Richard Wilde Walker Jr. 18911892
W. S. Thorington 18921892
James B. Head 18921898
Henry A. Sharpe 18981904
John R. Tyson 18981906
James R. Dowdell 18981909
N. D. Denson 19041909
R. T. Simpson 19041912
John C. Anderson 19041914
Thomas C. McClellan 19061923
J. J. Mayfield 19081920
A. A. Evans 19091910
Anthony D. Sayre 19091931
Ormond Somerville 19111928
Edward deGraffenried Sr. 19121914
Lucien D. Gardner 19141940
William H. Thomas 19141945
Benjamin M. Miller 19201927
Joel B. Brown 1920
1927		1921
1953
Virgil Bouldin 19231944
Arthur B. Foster 19281953
Thomas E. Knight Sr. 19311942
J. Ed Livingston 19401951
Thomas S. Lawson 19421972
Davis F. Stakely 1943
1946		1945
1962
Robert Tennent Simpson Jr. 19441972
John L. Goodwyn 19511968
Preston C. Clayton 19531954
Pelham J. Merrill 19531976
James J. Mayfield 19541956
Norman T. Spann 19561957
James S. Coleman 19571975
Robert B. Harwood 19621975
John P. Kohn 19681968
James N. Bloodworth 19681980
Daniel T. McCall Jr. 19691975
Alva Hugh Maddox 19692001
Ormond Somerville Jr. 19721972
Richard L. Jones 19721991
James H. Faulkner 19731986
T. Eric Embry 19751985
Janie Shores 19751999
Reneau P. Almon 19751999
Samuel A. Beatty 19761989
Oscar W. Adams Jr. 19801993
J. Gorman Houston Jr. 19852005
Henry B. Steagall II 19861995
Mark Kennedy 19891999
Kenneth F. Ingram 19911997
Ralph Cook 19932001
Terry L. Butts 19951998
Harold See 19972008
Champ Lyons 19982011
Jean Brown 19992005
John H. England 19992001
Douglas I. Johnstone 19992005
R. Bernard Harwood Jr. 20012007
Lyn Stuart 20012016
Thomas A. Woodall 20012012
Patricia M. Smith 20052011
Michael F. Bolin 20052023
Tom Parker 20052019
Glenn Murdock 20072018
James Allen Main 20112019
Jay Mitchell 20192025

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. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Governor Bob Riley appointed Nabers Chief Justice on June 22, 2004, to fill Roy Moore's unexpired term.
  5. ↑ 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.
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