Following is a list of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama.[1]
Current justices
| Justice | Year service began | Next election | Party affiliation | Law school |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tom Parker | 2005 Chief Justice from 2019 | 2024 | Republican | Vanderbilt University School of Law |
| Greg Shaw | 2009 | 2026 | Republican | Cumberland School of Law University of Virginia School of Law |
| Alisa Kelli Wise | 2011 | 2022 | Republican | Thomas Goode Jones School of Law |
| Tommy Bryan | 2013 | 2024 | Republican | Thomas Goode Jones School of Law |
| Will Sellers | 2017 | 2024 | Republican | University of Alabama School of Law New York University |
| Brady E. Mendheim Jr. | 2018 | 2026 | Republican | Cumberland School of Law |
| Jay Mitchell | 2019 | 2024 | Republican | University of Virginia School of Law |
| Sarah Hicks Stewart | 2019 | 2024 | Republican | Vanderbilt University School of Law |
| Greg Cook | 2022 | 2028 | Republican | Harvard Law School |
Chief justices
| 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
| Judge | Began active service | Ended active service |
| Henry Y. Webb | 1820 | 1823 |
| Abner Smith Lipscomb | 1820 | 1823 |
| Richard Ellis | 1820 | 1831 |
| Reuben Saffold | 1820 | 1834 |
| Anderson Crenshaw | 1821 | 1831 |
| John Gayle | 1823 | 1828 |
| Henry Minor | 1823 | 1825 |
| John White | 1825 | 1831 |
| John M. Taylor | 1825 | 1834 |
| Sion L. Perry | 1828 | 1832 |
| Henry W. Collier | 1828 1836 | 1831 1837 |
| Harry I. Thornton Sr. | 1834 | 1836 |
| Henry Hitchcock | 1834 | 1836 |
| Arthur F. Hopkins | 1836 | 1837 |
| John James Ormond | 1837 | 1847 |
| Henry Goldthwaite | 1837 | 1847 |
| Clement Comer Clay | 1843 | 1843 |
| Edmund S. Dargan | 1847 | 1849 |
| William Parish Chilton | 1847 | 1852 |
| Silas Parsons | 1849 | 1851 |
| Daniel Coleman | 1851 | 1851 |
| David G. Ligon | 1851 | 1854 |
| George Goldthwaite | 1851 | 1856 |
| Lyman Gibbons | 1852 | 1854 |
| John Dennis Phelan | 1852 1864 | 1854 1866 |
| Samuel Farrow Rice | 1853 | 1856 |
| Richard Wilde Walker | 1856 | 1866 |
| Abram Joseph Walker | 1856 | 1859 |
| George W. Stone | 1856 1876 | 1864 1884 |
| William M. Byrd | 1866 | 1867 |
| Thomas J. Judge | 1866 1874 | 1867 1876 |
| Thomas Minott Peters | 1868 | 1873 |
| Benjamin F. Saffold | 1868 | 1874 |
| Robert C. Brickell | 1873 | 1874 |
| Amos R. Manning | 1874 | 1880 |
| Henderson M. Somerville | 1880 | 1890 |
| Jonathan Haralson | 1882 | 1906 |
| David Clopton | 1884 | 1892 |
| Thomas N. McClellan | 1889 | 1898 |
| Thomas W. Coleman | 1890 | 1898 |
| Richard Wilde Walker Jr. | 1891 | 1892 |
| W. S. Thorington | 1892 | 1892 |
| James B. Head | 1892 | 1898 |
| Henry A. Sharpe | 1898 | 1904 |
| John R. Tyson | 1898 | 1906 |
| James R. Dowdell | 1898 | 1909 |
| N. D. Denson | 1904 | 1909 |
| R. T. Simpson | 1904 | 1912 |
| John C. Anderson | 1904 | 1914 |
| Thomas C. McClellan | 1906 | 1923 |
| J. J. Mayfield | 1908 | 1920 |
| A. A. Evans | 1909 | 1910 |
| Anthony D. Sayre | 1909 | 1931 |
| Ormond Somerville | 1911 | 1928 |
| Edward deGraffenried | 1912 | 1914 |
| Lucien D. Gardner | 1914 | 1940 |
| William H. Thomas | 1914 | 1945 |
| Benjamin M. Miller | 1920 | 1927 |
| Joel B. Brown | 1920 1927 | 1921 1953 |
| Virgil Bouldin | 1923 | 1944 |
| Arthur B. Foster | 1928 | 1953 |
| Thomas E. Knight Sr. | 1931 | 1942 |
| J. Ed Livingston | 1940 | 1951 |
| Thomas S. Lawson | 1942 | 1972 |
| Davis F. Stakely | 1943 1946 | 1945 1962 |
| Robert Tennent Simpson Jr. | 1944 | 1972 |
| John L. Goodwyn | 1951 | 1968 |
| Preston C. Clayton | 1953 | 1954 |
| Pelham J. Merrill | 1953 | 1976 |
| James J. Mayfield | 1954 | 1956 |
| Norman T. Spann | 1956 | 1957 |
| James S. Coleman | 1957 | 1975 |
| Robert B. Harwood | 1962 | 1975 |
| John P. Kohn | 1968 | 1968 |
| James N. Bloodworth | 1968 | 1980 |
| Daniel T. McCall Jr. | 1969 | 1975 |
| Alva Hugh Maddox | 1969 | 2001 |
| Ormond Somerville Jr. | 1972 | 1972 |
| Richard L. Jones | 1972 | 1991 |
| James H. Faulkner | 1973 | 1986 |
| T. Eric Embry | 1975 | 1985 |
| Janie Shores | 1975 | 1999 |
| Reneau P. Almon | 1975 | 1999 |
| Samuel A. Beatty | 1976 | 1989 |
| Oscar Adams | 1980 | 1993 |
| J. Gorman Houston Jr. | 1985 | 2005 |
| Henry B. Steagall II | 1986 | 1995 |
| Mark Kennedy | 1989 | 1999 |
| Kenneth F. Ingram | 1991 | 1997 |
| Ralph Cook | 1993 | 2001 |
| Terry L. Butts | 1995 | 1998 |
| Harold See | 1997 | 2008 |
| Champ Lyons | 1998 | 2011 |
| Jean Brown | 1999 | 2005 |
| John H. England | 1999 | 2001 |
| Douglas I. Johnstone | 1999 | 2005 |
| R. Bernard Harwood Jr. | 2001 | 2007 |
| Lyn Stuart | 2001 | 2016 |
| Thomas A. Woodall | 2001 | 2012 |
| Patricia M. Smith | 2005 | 2011 |
| Michael F. Bolin | 2005 | 2023 |
| Tom Parker | 2005 | 2019 |
| Glenn Murdock | 2007 | 2018 |
| James Allen Main | 2011 | 2019 |
References
- ↑ "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.
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