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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 2011 / Active

Alisa Kelli Wise

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Alisa Kelli Wise is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1962 · age 64
Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Auburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Wise authored 219 published opinions for the court (2011–2026), plus 8 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Higgs v. Bole (36 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 92 of these were attributed to Wise by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2012	Higgs v. Bole†	103 So. 3d 40	36
2015	Lemley v. Wilson· Dissent†	178 So. 3d 834	31
2011	Mpq v. Birmingham Realty Company, 1091582 (Ala. 8-12-2011)†	78 So. 3d 391	29
2013	City of Gadsden v. Harbin†	148 So. 3d 690	16
2012	Kelley v. Burnell†	90 So. 3d 708	16
2016	Alvarado v. Estate of Kidd· Dissent†	205 So. 3d 1188	14
2012	Wallace v. Belleview Properties Corp.†	120 So. 3d 485	12
2012	Harris v. Owens†	105 So. 3d 430	12
2011	N.C. v. Caldwell†	77 So. 3d 561	12
2012	Altapointe Health Systems, Inc. v. Davis†	90 So. 3d 139	11
2011	Paradise v. Highlands Medical Center†	78 So. 3d 399	11
2016	Cockrell v. Pruitt†	214 So. 3d 324	9
2015	McDaniel v. Ezell†	177 So. 3d 454	9
2014	Ex parte Edgetech I.G., Inc. n/k/a Quanex I.G. Systems, Inc.†	159 So. 3d 629	8
2013	Parker v. Mobile Gas Service Corp.†	123 So. 3d 499	8

Showing the 15 most-cited of 231 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of Alabama reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Alisa Kelli Wise on?: Alisa Kelli Wise is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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15 years on the Supreme Court of Alabama. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).