How do judges of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 2001 / Active

Craig S. Pittman

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Craig S. Pittman is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

Middlebury College
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Pittman authored 748 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 61 dissents and 90 concurrences. Most cited: Vann v. Cook (121 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. 612 of these were attributed to Pittman 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
2008	Vann v. Cook	989 So. 2d 556	121
2003	D.O. v. Calhoun Cty. D.H.R.	859 So. 2d 439	75
2003	TenEyck v. TenEyck· Dissent†	885 So. 2d 146	66
2005	Ex Parte Russell· Dissent†	911 So. 2d 719	53
2008	V.W. v. G.W.†	990 So. 2d 414	42
2003	Baggett v. Baggett	855 So. 2d 556	41
2010	T.C. v. C.E.†	63 So. 3d 627	40
2004	Rehfeld v. Roth	885 So. 2d 791	36
2014	Morgan v. Morgan· Concurrence†	183 So. 3d 945	34
2012	Slaby v. Mountain River Estates Residential Ass'n· Concurrence†	100 So. 3d 569	32
2004	J.B. v. A.B.†	888 So. 2d 528	30
2003	Ruzic v. State Ex Rel. Thornton	866 So. 2d 564	30
2006	Hayes v. Hayes	949 So. 2d 150	29
2010	Poh v. Poh	64 So. 3d 49	28
2007	F.G. v. State Department of Human Resources· Concurrence†	988 So. 2d 555	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 900 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court is Craig S. Pittman on?: Craig S. Pittman is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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25 years on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).