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 beganNext electionParty affiliationLaw school
Michael F. Bolin
2005
2022
RepublicanCumberland School of Law
Tom Parker
2005
2024
RepublicanVanderbilt University School of Law
Greg Shaw
2009
2020
RepublicanCumberland School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
Alisa Kelli Wise
2011
2022
RepublicanThomas Goode Jones School of Law
Tommy Bryan
2013
2024
RepublicanThomas Goode Jones School of Law
Will Sellers
2017
2024
RepublicanUniversity of Alabama School of Law
New York University
Brady E. Mendheim Jr.
2018
2020
RepublicanCumberland School of Law
Jay Mitchell
2019
2024
RepublicanUniversity of Virginia School of Law
Sarah Hicks Stewart
2019
2024
RepublicanVanderbilt University School of Law

Chief justices
JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Clement Comer Clay18201823
Abner Smith Lipscomb18231834
Reuben Saffold18341836
Henry Hitchcock18361837
Arthur F. Hopkins18371837
Henry W. Collier18371849
Edmund Strother Dargan18491852
William Parish Chilton18521856
George Goldthwaite18561856
Samuel F. Rice18561859
Abram Joseph Walker18591868
E. Woolsey Peck18681873
Thomas Minott Peters18731874
Robert C. Brickell18741884
George W. Stone18841894
Thomas N. McClellan18941906
Samuel D. Weakley19061906
John R. Tyson19061909
James R. Dowdell19091914
John C. Anderson19141940
Lucien D. Gardner19401951
J. Ed Livingston19511971
Howell T. Heflin19711977
C. C. Torbert Jr.19771989
Ernest C. Hornsby19891995
Perry O. Hooper Sr.19952001
Roy Moore2001
2013		2003[2]
2016[3]
Drayton Nabers Jr.20042007[4]
Sue Bell Cobb20072011
Charles R. Malone20112013[5]
Lyn Stuart20162019
Tom Parker2019present

Associate justices
JudgeBegan active
service		Ended active
service
Henry Y. Webb18201823
Abner Smith Lipscomb18201823
Richard Ellis18201831
Reuben Saffold18201834
Anderson Crenshaw18211831
John Gayle18231828
Henry Minor18231831
John White18251831
John M. Taylor18251834
Sion L. Perry18281832
Henry W. Collier1828
1836		1831
1837
Harry I. Thornton18341836
Henry Hitchcock18341836
Arthur F. Hopkins18361837
John J. Ormond18371847
Henry Goldthwaite18371847
Clement Comer Clay18431843
Edmund Strother Dargan18471849
William Parish Chilton18471852
Silas Parsons18491851
Daniel Coleman18511851
David G. Ligon18511854
George Goldthwaite18511856
Lyman Gibbons18521854
John D. Phelan1852
1864		1854
1866
Samuel F. Rice18531856
Richard Wilde Walker18561866
Abram Joseph Walker1856
1863		1859
1868
George W. Stone1856
1876		1864
1884
William M. Byrd18631867
Thomas J. Judge1863
1874		1867
1876
Thomas M. Peters18681873
Benjamin F. Saffold18681874
Robert C. Brickell18731874
Amos R. Manning18741880
Henderson M. Somerville18801890
Jonathan Haralson18821906
David Clopton18841892
Thomas N. McClellan18891898
Thomas W. Coleman18901898
Richard Wilde Walker Jr.18911892
W. S. Thorington18921892
James B. Head18921898
Henry A. Sharpe18981904
John R. Tyson18981906
James R. Dowdell18981909
N. D. Denson19041909
R. T. Simpson19041912
John C. Anderson19041914
Samuel D. Weakley19061907
J. J. Mayfield19081920
A. A. Evans19091910
Anthony D. Sayre19091931
Ormond Somerville (I)19111928
Edward deGraffenried19121914
Lucien D. Gardner19141940
William H. Thomas19141945
B. M. Miller19201927
Joel B. Brown1920
1927		1921
1953
Virgil Bouldin19231944
Arthur B. Foster19281953
Thomas E. Knight19311942
J. Ed Livingston19401951
Thomas S. Lawson19421972
Davis F. Stakely19431962
Robert Tennent Simpson Jr.19441972
John L. Goodwyn19511968
Preston C. Clayton19531954
Pelham J. Merrill19531976
James J. Mayfield19541956
Norman T. Spann19561957
James S. Coleman19571975
Robert B. Harwood19621975
John P. Kohn19681968
James N. Bloodworth19681980
Daniel T. McCall Jr.19691975
Alva Hugh Maddox19692001
Ormond Somerville (II)19721972
Richard L. Jones19721991
James H. Faulkner19731986
T. Eric Embry19751985
Janie L. Shores19751999
Reneau P. Almon19751999
Samuel A. Beatty19761989
Oscar W. Adams Jr.19801993
J. Gorman Houston Jr.19852005
Henry B. Steagall II19861995
Mark Kennedy19891999
Kenneth F. Ingram19911997
Ralph Cook19932001
Terry L. Butts19951998
Harold See19972008
Champ Lyons19982011
Jean Brown19992005
R. Bernard Harwood Jr.20012007
Patricia M. Smith20052011

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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