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 1969 / Served to 1975

Daniel T. McCall Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Daniel T. McCall Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1909–2000
Tenure: 1969–1975 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, McCall authored 129 published opinions for the court (1969–1975), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Radke v. State (106 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. 47 of these were attributed to McCall 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
1974	Radke v. State	293 So. 2d 314	106
1972	Kilcrease v. Harris	259 So. 2d 797	89
1973	Horne v. Patton· Dissent†	287 So. 2d 824	79
1970	Thompson v. Havard	235 So. 2d 853	72
1973	Higgins v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company	282 So. 2d 301	65
1973	Warren v. State	288 So. 2d 826	58
1974	O'BARR v. Feist	296 So. 2d 152	55
1970	Wise v. Watson	236 So. 2d 681	54
1970	Butler v. State	232 So. 2d 631	48
1973	Wolfe v. Isbell	280 So. 2d 758	40
1974	Baldwin v. McClendon	288 So. 2d 761	39
1972	Meriwether v. Crown Investment Corporation	268 So. 2d 780	39
1972	Colburn v. Mid-State Homes, Inc.	266 So. 2d 865	32
1973	Marcrum v. Embry	282 So. 2d 49	31
1970	Ex Parte Alabama State Bar	230 So. 2d 519	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 133 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 Daniel T. McCall Jr. on?: Daniel T. McCall Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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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).