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 2011 / Served to 2013

Chuck Malone

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Chuck Malone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2011–2013 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Malone authored 10 published opinions for the court (2011–2013), plus 2 dissents. Most cited: Ankrom v. State (28 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. 13 of these were attributed to Malone 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
2013	Ankrom v. State· Dissent†	152 So. 3d 397	28
2012	Auto Owners Insurance, Inc. v. Blackmon Insurance Agency, Inc.†	99 So. 3d 1193	11
2011	Anderson v. Tate & Lyle PLC†	81 So. 3d 1217	9
2011	Aurora Healthcare, Inc. v. Ramsey, 1091561 (Ala. 10-21-2011)†	83 So. 3d 495	8
2011	Alabama Psychiatric Services, P.C. v. 412 South Court Street, LLC.†	81 So. 3d 1239	8
2012	Whited v. Wright Brothers Construction Co.†	88 So. 3d 817	6
2012	Ex parte Trust Co. of Virginia†	96 So. 3d 67	5
2012	GE Capital Aviation Services, Inc. v. Pemco World Air Services, Inc.· Separate†	92 So. 3d 749	4
2012	Vest v. Vest†	130 So. 3d 572	3
2012	Weaver v. State†	105 So. 3d 1213	0
2012	Lane v. State· Dissent†	104 So. 3d 874	0
2012	Opinion of the Justices†	95 So. 3d 6	0
2011	Employers Mutual Casualty Co. v. Holman Building Co., L.L.C.†	84 So. 3d 856	0

Showing the 13 most-cited of 13 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 Chuck Malone on?: Chuck Malone was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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2 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).