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 1921 / Served to 1927

Benjamin M. Miller

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Benjamin M. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1921. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1921–1927 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1921	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Miller authored 530 published opinions for the court (1921–1927), plus 11 dissents. Most cited: Lambert v. State (59 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. 4 of these were attributed to Miller 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
1922	Lambert v. State	93 So. 708	59
1921	Whitehead v. State	90 So. 351	47
1926	Galloway Coal Co. v. Stanford· Dissent	109 So. 377	42
1921	Brown v. Mobile Electric Co.	91 So. 802	42
1923	Hall v. Pearce	96 So. 608	39
1921	Louis Pizitz Dry Goods Co. v. Cusimano	91 So. 779	39
1921	Nickerson v. State	88 So. 905	37
1926	Cairnes v. Hillman Drug Co.	108 So. 362	35
1927	Baisden v. City of Greenville	111 So. 2	34
1921	Kuykendall v. Edmondson	87 So. 882	33
1925	Stuck v. Howard	104 So. 500	32
1922	Martin v. Alabama Power Co.	94 So. 76	32
1925	Baughn v. Little Cahaba Coal Co.	105 So. 648	30
1923	City of Tuscaloosa v. Fitts	96 So. 771	30
1921	Ex Parte Eubank	89 So. 656	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 543 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 Benjamin M. Miller on?: Benjamin M. Miller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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6 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).