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 2018 / Active

Brady E. Mendheim Jr.

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Brady E. Mendheim Jr. is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, serving since 2018. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2018 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2018	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Mendheim authored 26 published opinions for the court (2018), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Baldwin Mut. Ins. Co. v. McCain (14 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. 28 of these were attributed to Mendheim 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
2018	Baldwin Mut. Ins. Co. v. McCain†	260 So. 3d 801	14
2018	Pipkin v. Sun State Oil, Inc.†	273 So. 3d 828	2
2018	Mitchell v. K & B Fabricators, Inc.†	274 So. 3d 251	1
2018	Lynd v. Marshall Cnty. Pediatrics, P.C.†	263 So. 3d 1041	1
2018	Council v. Estate of Skelton (Ex Parte Skelton)†	275 So. 3d 144	0
2018	Council v. Estate of Skelton (Ex Parte Skelton)†	275 So. 3d 144	0
2018	Tarver v. Advanced Disposal Servs. S., LLC (Ex parte Utilities Bd. of Tuskegee)†	274 So. 3d 229	0
2018	Tarver v. Advanced Disposal Servs. S., LLC (Ex parte Utilities Bd. of Tuskegee)†	274 So. 3d 229	0
2018	Mitchell v. K & B Fabricators, Inc.†	274 So. 3d 251	0
2018	Pipkin v. Sun State Oil, Inc.†	273 So. 3d 828	0
2018	Rogers v. City of Montgomery (In re Rogers)†	272 So. 3d 1046	0
2018	Rogers v. City of Montgomery (In re Rogers)†	272 So. 3d 1046	0
2018	Frank v. Shavers (In re City of Montgomery)†	272 So. 3d 155	0
2018	Frank v. Shavers (In re City of Montgomery)†	272 So. 3d 155	0
2018	Ala. Power Co. v. Keller (In re Ala. Power Co.)†	268 So. 3d 65	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 28 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 is Brady E. Mendheim Jr. on?: Brady E. Mendheim Jr. is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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8 years on the Supreme Court of Alabama. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).