Jimmy Evans | |
Office: | 43rd Attorney General of Alabama |
Term Start: | January 21, 1991 |
Term End: | January 16, 1995 |
Predecessor: | Don Siegelman |
Successor: | Jeff Sessions |
Birth Name: | James Harold Evans |
Birth Date: | 28 March 1939 |
Birth Place: | Montgomery, Alabama, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
James Harold Evans (March 28, 1939 – February 15, 2021) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the attorney general of Alabama from 1991 to 1995. He lost his reelection bid for a second term in 1994 to Jeff Sessions.[1]
Evans was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He went to Huntingdon College and Auburn University. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Evans was also a lawyer in Montgomery, Alabama and a judge for Montgomery County, Alabama.[2] [3] He died of pneumonia and heart attack.[2] [3]