Virgil Bouldin (October 20, 1866 – July 30, 1949)[1] [2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1923 to 1944.
Educated in the public schools of Jackson County, Alabama, Bouldin received a B.A. from Winchester Normal College, in Winchester, Tennessee,[2] [3] and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee,[2] in 1889, gaining admission to the bar that same year.[3]
Bouldin returned to Scottsboro to practice law,[1] and represented Jackson County in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1896,[1] [3] He served on the Jackson County Democratic executive committee from 1890 to 1902, and on the state Democratic executive committee from 1907 to 1910, and from 1915 to 1916.[1]
He served as a private in the United States Army in the Spanish-American War, in the 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment.[1] [3]
He then returned to Jackson County "to devote himself to his law practice and his banking and lumber interests".[3] [4]
On September 25, 1923, Governor William W. Brandon appointed Bouldin to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice Thomas C. McClellan, effective October 1, 1923.[3]
Bouldin served on the court for 21 years,[2] retiring to supernumerary status effective May 1, 1944.[5]
In 1895, Bouldin married Irene Jacoway, of Dardanelle, Arkansas, with whom he had three children, including one son and one daughter who survived him.[1] [3] Bouldin died at his home in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the age of 82, and was buried at Scottsboro's Cedar Hill Cemetery.[1] At the time of his death, he was the only living former supreme court justice in the state.[1]