How do judges of the Supreme Court of Alabama reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1909 / Served to 1931

Anthony D. Sayre

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Anthony D. Sayre was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1909. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1858 · age 168
Tenure: 1909–1931 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1909	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sayre authored 1,618 published opinions for the court (1909–1931), plus 35 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Woolf v. McGaugh (101 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. 612 of these were attributed to Sayre 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
1911	Woolf v. McGaugh†	175 Ala. 299	101
1928	Alabama State Bridge Corporation v. Smith	116 So. 695	96
1922	Greek v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.	92 So. 458	94
1924	McDonald v. McDonald	102 So. 38	89
1912	Parker v. Wilson†	179 Ala. 361	77
1927	St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co. v. Guthrie	114 So. 215	76
1921	Age-Herald Pub. Co. v. Huddleston· Dissent	92 So. 193	74
1913	McNeil v. Munson S. S. Lines· Dissent†	184 Ala. 420	71
1913	Kidd v. Borum†	181 Ala. 144	71
1920	Lawson v. Mobile Electric Co.	85 So. 257	64
1911	Robinson v. Crotwell	57 So. 23	64
1912	City of Birmingham v. Wills†	178 Ala. 198	62
1917	Kelly v. Shropshire†	199 Ala. 602	61
1914	Davis v. State†	188 Ala. 59	58
1913	Smith v. State†	183 Ala. 10	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,684 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 Anthony D. Sayre on?: Anthony D. Sayre was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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22 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).