List of justices of the Alabama Supreme Court

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
Michael F. Bolin	2005	2022	Republican	Cumberland School of Law
Tom Parker	2005 Chief Justice from 2019	2024	Republican	Vanderbilt University School of Law
Greg Shaw	2009	2020	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	2020	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

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 Strother Dargan	1849	1852
William Parish Chilton	1852	1856
George Goldthwaite	1856	1856
Samuel F. Rice	1856	1859
Abram Joseph Walker	1859	1868
E. Woolsey Peck	1868	1873
Thomas Minott Peters	1873	1874
	1874 1894	1884 1898
	1884	1894
	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 T. Heflin	1971	1977
C. C. Torbert Jr.	1977	1989
Ernest C. Hornsby	1989	1995
Perry O. 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
	1820	1823
Abner Smith Lipscomb	1820	1823
Richard Ellis	1820	1831
Reuben Saffold	1820	1834
Anderson Crenshaw	1821	1831
John Gayle	1823	1828
	1823	1825
	1825	1831
	1825	1834
	1828	1832
Henry W. Collier	1828 1836	1831 1837
	1834	1836
Henry Hitchcock	1834	1836
Arthur F. Hopkins	1836	1837
John J. Ormond	1837	1847
Henry Goldthwaite	1837	1847
Clement Comer Clay	1843	1843
Edmund Strother Dargan	1847	1849
William Parish Chilton	1847	1852
	1849	1851
Daniel Coleman	1851	1851
David G. Ligon	1851	1854
George Goldthwaite	1851	1856
Lyman Gibbons	1852	1854
John D. Phelan	1852 1864	1854 1866
Samuel F. Rice	1853	1856
Richard Wilde Walker	1856	1866
Abram Joseph Walker	1856	1859
	1856 1876	1864 1884
	1863	1867
	1863 1874	1867 1876
Thomas M. Peters	1868	1873
Benjamin F. Saffold	1868	1874
	1873	1874
Amos R. Manning	1874	1880
Henderson M. Somerville	1880	1890
Jonathan Haralson	1882	1906
David Clopton	1884	1892
	1889	1898
	1890	1898
Richard Wilde Walker Jr.	1891	1892
	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
	1904	1912
John C. Anderson	1904	1914
	1906	1923
	1908	1920
A. A. Evans	1909	1910
Anthony D. Sayre	1909	1931
	1911	1928
Edward deGraffenried	1912	1914
Lucien D. Gardner	1914	1940
	1914	1945
B. M. Miller	1920	1927
	1920 1927	1921 1953
	1923	1944
Arthur B. Foster	1928	1953
	1931	1942
J. Ed Livingston	1940	1951
	1942	1972
	1943 1946	1945 1962
	1944	1972
	1951	1968
	1953	1954
Pelham J. Merrill	1953	1976
	1954	1956
	1956	1957
	1957	1975
	1962	1975
John P. Kohn	1968	1968
James N. Bloodworth	1968	1980
	1969	1975
Alva Hugh Maddox	1969	2001
	1972	1972
	1972	1991
James H. Faulkner	1973	1986
	1975	1985
Janie Shores	1975	1999
	1975	1999
Samuel A. Beatty	1976	1989
Oscar W. Adams Jr.	1980	1993
	1985	2005
	1986	1995
	1989	1999
	1991	1997
	1993	2001
	1995	1998
Harold See	1997	2008
Champ Lyons	1998	2011
Jean Brown	1999	2005
	1999	2001
	1999	2005
	2001	2007
Lyn Stuart	2001	2016
	2001	2012
Patricia M. Smith	2005	2011
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 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.

External links[]

[judicialhistory-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 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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