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 1982 / Served to 1983

Bishop Barron

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Bishop Barron was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–1983
Tenure: 1982–1983

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Barron authored 73 published opinions for the court (1982–1984). Most cited: Sanders v. State (91 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. 23 of these were attributed to Barron 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
1982	Sanders v. State	423 So. 2d 348	91
1982	Sanders v. State	426 So. 2d 497	88
1982	Coulter v. State	438 So. 2d 336	67
1982	Dobard v. State	435 So. 2d 1338	57
1982	Magwood v. State	426 So. 2d 918	51
1982	Godbolt v. State	429 So. 2d 1131	44
1982	Young v. State	416 So. 2d 1109	43
1982	Robinson v. State	428 So. 2d 167	38
1982	Wood v. State	416 So. 2d 794	38
1982	Lokos v. State	434 So. 2d 818	33
1982	Mardis v. State	423 So. 2d 331	29
1982	Chandler v. State	426 So. 2d 477	28
1983	Wilson v. State	428 So. 2d 197	24
1982	Spears v. State	428 So. 2d 174	22
1982	Key v. Town of Kinsey	424 So. 2d 701	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 74 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 Bishop Barron on?: Bishop Barron was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1982. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).