List of justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
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Following is a list of the justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama.[1]
Current justices
| Justice | First elected | Next election | Party | Law school | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Shaw | 2009 |
2026 |
Republican | Cumberland (JD), University of Virginia (LLM) | |
| Alisa Kelli Wise | 2011 |
2022 |
Republican | Thomas Goode Jones | |
| Tommy Bryan | 2013 |
2030 |
Republican | Thomas Goode Jones | |
| Will Sellers | 2017 |
2030 |
Republican | University of Alabama (JD), New York University (LLM) | |
| Brady E. Mendheim Jr. | 2018 |
2026 |
Republican | Cumberland | |
| Sarah Hicks Stewart | 2019 (Chief Justice since 2025) |
2030 |
Republican | Vanderbilt | |
| Greg Cook | 2022 |
2028 |
Republican | Harvard | |
| Chris McCool | 2025 |
2030 |
Republican | University of Alabama | |
| Will Parker | 2025 |
2026 |
Republican | University of Alabama | |
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 S. Dargan | 1849 | 1852 |
| William Parish Chilton | 1852 | 1856 |
| George Goldthwaite | 1856 | 1856 |
| Samuel Farrow Rice | 1856 | 1859 |
| Abram Joseph Walker | 1859 | 1868 |
| E. Woolsey Peck | 1868 | 1873 |
| Thomas Minott Peters | 1873 | 1874 |
| Robert C. Brickell | 1874 1894 | 1884 1898 |
| George W. Stone | 1884 | 1894 |
| Thomas N. McClellan | 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 Heflin | 1971 | 1977 |
| C. C. Torbert Jr. | 1977 | 1989 |
| Ernest C. Hornsby | 1989 | 1995 |
| Perry 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 | 2025 |
| Sarah Hicks Stewart | 2025 | present |
Associate justices
| Judge | Began active service | Ended active service |
| Henry Y. Webb | 1820 | 1823 |
| Abner Smith Lipscomb | 1820 | 1823 |
| Richard Ellis | 1820 | 1831 |
| Reuben Saffold | 1820 | 1834 |
| Anderson Crenshaw | 1821 | 1831 |
| John Gayle | 1823 | 1828 |
| Henry Minor | 1823 | 1825 |
| John White | 1825 | 1831 |
| John M. Taylor | 1825 | 1834 |
| Sion L. Perry | 1828 | 1832 |
| Henry W. Collier | 1828 1836 | 1831 1837 |
| Harry I. Thornton Sr. | 1834 | 1836 |
| Henry Hitchcock | 1834 | 1836 |
| Arthur F. Hopkins | 1836 | 1837 |
| John James Ormond | 1837 | 1847 |
| Henry Goldthwaite | 1837 | 1847 |
| Clement Comer Clay | 1843 | 1843 |
| Edmund S. Dargan | 1847 | 1849 |
| William Parish Chilton | 1847 | 1852 |
| Silas Parsons | 1849 | 1851 |
| Daniel Coleman | 1851 | 1851 |
| David G. Ligon | 1851 | 1854 |
| George Goldthwaite | 1851 | 1856 |
| Lyman Gibbons | 1852 | 1854 |
| John Dennis Phelan | 1852 1864 | 1854 1866 |
| Samuel Farrow Rice | 1853 | 1856 |
| Richard Wilde Walker | 1856 | 1866 |
| Abram Joseph Walker | 1856 | 1859 |
| George W. Stone | 1856 1876 | 1864 1884 |
| William M. Byrd | 1866 | 1867 |
| Thomas J. Judge | 1866 1874 | 1867 1876 |
| Thomas Minott Peters | 1868 | 1873 |
| Benjamin F. Saffold | 1868 | 1874 |
| Robert C. Brickell | 1873 | 1874 |
| Amos R. Manning | 1874 | 1880 |
| Henderson M. Somerville | 1880 | 1890 |
| Jonathan Haralson | 1882 | 1906 |
| David Clopton | 1884 | 1892 |
| Thomas N. McClellan | 1889 | 1898 |
| Thomas W. Coleman | 1890 | 1898 |
| Richard Wilde Walker Jr. | 1891 | 1892 |
| W. S. Thorington | 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 |
| R. T. Simpson | 1904 | 1912 |
| John C. Anderson | 1904 | 1914 |
| Thomas C. McClellan | 1906 | 1923 |
| J. J. Mayfield | 1908 | 1920 |
| A. A. Evans | 1909 | 1910 |
| Anthony D. Sayre | 1909 | 1931 |
| Ormond Somerville | 1911 | 1928 |
| Edward deGraffenried Sr. | 1912 | 1914 |
| Lucien D. Gardner | 1914 | 1940 |
| William H. Thomas | 1914 | 1945 |
| Benjamin M. Miller | 1920 | 1927 |
| Joel B. Brown | 1920 1927 | 1921 1953 |
| Virgil Bouldin | 1923 | 1944 |
| Arthur B. Foster | 1928 | 1953 |
| Thomas E. Knight Sr. | 1931 | 1942 |
| J. Ed Livingston | 1940 | 1951 |
| Thomas S. Lawson | 1942 | 1972 |
| Davis F. Stakely | 1943 1946 | 1945 1962 |
| Robert Tennent Simpson Jr. | 1944 | 1972 |
| John L. Goodwyn | 1951 | 1968 |
| Preston C. Clayton | 1953 | 1954 |
| Pelham J. Merrill | 1953 | 1976 |
| James J. Mayfield | 1954 | 1956 |
| Norman T. Spann | 1956 | 1957 |
| James S. Coleman | 1957 | 1975 |
| Robert B. Harwood | 1962 | 1975 |
| John P. Kohn | 1968 | 1968 |
| James N. Bloodworth | 1968 | 1980 |
| Daniel T. McCall Jr. | 1969 | 1975 |
| Alva Hugh Maddox | 1969 | 2001 |
| Ormond Somerville Jr. | 1972 | 1972 |
| Richard L. Jones | 1972 | 1991 |
| James H. Faulkner | 1973 | 1986 |
| T. Eric Embry | 1975 | 1985 |
| Janie Shores | 1975 | 1999 |
| Reneau P. Almon | 1975 | 1999 |
| Samuel A. Beatty | 1976 | 1989 |
| Oscar W. Adams Jr. | 1980 | 1993 |
| J. Gorman Houston Jr. | 1985 | 2005 |
| Henry B. Steagall II | 1986 | 1995 |
| Mark Kennedy | 1989 | 1999 |
| Kenneth F. Ingram | 1991 | 1997 |
| Ralph Cook | 1993 | 2001 |
| Terry L. Butts | 1995 | 1998 |
| Harold See | 1997 | 2008 |
| Champ Lyons | 1998 | 2011 |
| Jean Brown | 1999 | 2005 |
| John H. England | 1999 | 2001 |
| Douglas I. Johnstone | 1999 | 2005 |
| R. Bernard Harwood Jr. | 2001 | 2007 |
| Lyn Stuart | 2001 | 2016 |
| Thomas A. Woodall | 2001 | 2012 |
| Patricia M. Smith | 2005 | 2011 |
| Mike Bolin | 2005 | 2023 |
| Tom Parker | 2005 | 2019 |
| Glenn Murdock | 2007 | 2018 |
| James Allen Main | 2011 | 2019 |
| Jay Mitchell | 2019 | 2025 |
| Bill Lewis | 2025 | 2025 |