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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1969 / Served to 2001

Alva Hugh Maddox

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Alva Hugh Maddox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1930 · age 96
Tenure: 1969–2001 · 32 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Maddox authored 1,675 published opinions for the court (1969–2003), plus 441 dissents and 210 concurrences. Most cited: Bass v. SOUTHTRUST BANK OF BALDWIN CTY. (1,124 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. 1,240 of these were attributed to Maddox 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
1989	Bass v. SOUTHTRUST BANK OF BALDWIN CTY.	538 So. 2d 794	1,124
1990	Hanners v. Balfour Guthrie, Inc.· Dissent†	564 So. 2d 412	628
1987	Ex Parte Branch	526 So. 2d 609	578
1981	Beck v. State	396 So. 2d 645	434
1996	Ex Parte Trinity Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	680 So. 2d 262	428
1975	Armstrong v. State· Concurrence†	312 So. 2d 620	416
1989	Green Oil Co. v. Hornsby· Concurrence†	539 So. 2d 218	337
2000	Ex Parte Butts· Dissent†	775 So. 2d 173	311
1979	Ex Parte Cumbo	368 So. 2d 877	303
1991	Ex Parte Eastwood Foods, Inc.	575 So. 2d 91	292
1999	State v. Property at 2018 Rainbow Drive· Dissent†	740 So. 2d 1025	275
1985	Ex Parte Kennedy	472 So. 2d 1106	233
1978	Chavers v. State	361 So. 2d 1106	230
1981	Ex Parte Kyzer	399 So. 2d 330	217
1992	Carter v. Henderson	598 So. 2d 1350	216

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,329 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 was Alva Hugh Maddox on?: Alva Hugh Maddox was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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32 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).