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 1928 / Served to 1953

Arthur B. Foster

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Arthur B. Foster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1928. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1872–1958
Tenure: 1928–1953 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1928	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Foster authored 1,589 published opinions for the court (1928–1953), plus 20 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: State Docks Commission v. Barnes (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. 124 of these were attributed to Foster 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
1932	State Docks Commission v. Barnes	143 So. 581	101
1939	Pickett v. Matthews	192 So. 261	90
1945	Ex Parte Weissinger· Dissent	22 So. 2d 510	88
1948	Parsons v. State	38 So. 2d 209	84
1929	Smith v. Cook	124 So. 898	80
1937	Beeland Wholesale Co. v. Kaufman	174 So. 516	70
1935	Wilkerson v. Wilkerson	161 So. 820	70
1952	Broadway v. State†	257 Ala. 414	69
1936	City of Tuscaloosa v. Fair	167 So. 276	69
1942	Curry v. Woodstock Slag Corporation	6 So. 2d 479	65
1941	Grissett v. State	2 So. 2d 399	65
1933	Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co. v. Murphy	146 So. 387	65
1929	George v. Employers' Liability Assur. Corporation	122 So. 175	62
1945	Glass v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America· Concurrence	22 So. 2d 13	61
1939	Alabama Mills, Inc. v. Smith	186 So. 699	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,639 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 Arthur B. Foster on?: Arthur B. Foster was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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25 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).