How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1969 / Served to 1972

Annie Lola Price

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Annie Lola Price was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1972
Tenure: 1969–1972 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Price authored 78 published opinions for the court (1969–1972), plus 1 dissent and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Parks v. State (72 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. 61 of these were attributed to Price 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
1971	Parks v. State	248 So. 2d 761	72
1970	Rueffert v. State	237 So. 2d 520	50
1972	Honeycuttt v. State	259 So. 2d 846	27
1970	Reynolds v. State	238 So. 2d 557	26
1970	Sparks v. State	242 So. 2d 403	19
1971	Vander Wielen v. State	251 So. 2d 240	18
1969	Hooks v. State	228 So. 2d 833	15
1971	Singleton v. State†	48 Ala. App. 157	14
1972	Reed v. State	259 So. 2d 304	12
1971	Dawson v. State	253 So. 2d 362	12
1971	Bray v. State	253 So. 2d 531	12
1970	Welch v. State· Dissent†	235 So. 2d 906	12
1969	Hughes v. State	228 So. 2d 862	12
1969	Tadlock v. State	228 So. 2d 859	12
1972	Elliott v. State	266 So. 2d 318	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 81 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 Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Annie Lola Price on?: Annie Lola Price was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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