List of justices of the Alabama Supreme Court explained

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

Current justices

Justice	First elected	Next election	Party		Law school
				Republican	Vanderbilt
				Republican	Cumberland, University of Virginia
Alisa Kelli Wise				Republican	Thomas Goode Jones
				Republican	Thomas Goode Jones
				Republican	University of Alabama, New York University
				Republican	Cumberland
				Republican	University of Virginia
				Republican	Vanderbilt
				Republican	Harvard

Chief justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service
	1820	1823
	1823	1834
	1834	1836
	1836	1837
	1837	1837
	1837	1849
	1849	1852
	1852	1856
	1856	1856
	1856	1859
	1859	1868
	1868	1873
	1873	1874
	1874 1894	1884 1898
	1884	1894
	1898	1906
	1906	1907
	1906	1909
	1909	1914
	1914	1940
	1940	1951
	1951	1971
	1971	1977
	1977	1989
	1989	1995
	1995	2001
	2001 2013	2003^[2] 2016^[3]
	2004	2007^[4]
	2007	2011
	2011	2013^[5]
	2016	2019
	2019	present

Associate justices

Judge	Began active service	Ended active service
	1820	1823
	1820	1823
	1820	1831
	1820	1834
	1821	1831
	1823	1828
	1823	1825
	1825	1831
	1825	1834
	1828	1832
	1828 1836	1831 1837
	1834	1836
	1834	1836
	1836	1837
	1837	1847
	1837	1847
	1843	1843
	1847	1849
	1847	1852
	1849	1851
	1851	1851
	1851	1854
	1851	1856
	1852	1854
	1852 1864	1854 1866
	1853	1856
	1856	1866
	1856	1859
	1856 1876	1864 1884
	1866	1867
	1866 1874	1867 1876
	1868	1873
	1868	1874
	1873	1874
	1874	1880
	1880	1890
	1882	1906
	1884	1892
	1889	1898
	1890	1898
	1891	1892
	1892	1892
	1892	1898
	1898	1904
	1898	1906
	1898	1909
	1904	1909
	1904	1912
	1904	1914
	1906	1923
	1908	1920
	1909	1910
	1909	1931
	1911	1928
	1912	1914
	1914	1940
	1914	1945
	1920	1927
	1920 1927		1921 1953
	1923	1944
	1928	1953
	1931	1942
	1940	1951
	1942	1972
	1943 1946	1945 1962
	1944	1972
	1951	1968
	1953	1954
	1953	1976
	1954	1956
	1956	1957
	1957	1975
	1962	1975
	1968	1968
	1968	1980
	1969	1975
	1969	2001
	1972	1972
	1972	1991
	1973	1986
	1975	1985
	1975	1999
	1975	1999
	1976	1989
	1980	1993
	1985	2005
	1986	1995
	1989	1999
	1991	1997
	1993	2001
	1995	1998
	1997	2008
	1998	2011
	1999	2005
	1999	2001
	1999	2005
	2001	2007
	2001	2016
	2001	2012
	2005	2011
	2005	2023
	2005	2019
	2007	2018
	2011	2019

External links

• Alabama Appellate Justices and Judges, Past and Present
• A History of the Alabama Judicial System: Supreme Court
• Alabama Supreme Court and State Law Library: Judges

Notes and References

1. Web site: A history of the Alabama Judicial System . Alabama Unified Judicial System . State of Alabama . February 10, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120314044022/http://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/judicial_history.pdf . March 14, 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," [//www.al.com/news/montgomery/index.ssf/2017/04/gov_kay_ivey_appoints_lyn_stua.html 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.