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 2004 / Served to 2007

Drayton Nabers

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Drayton Nabers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1940 · age 86
Tenure: 2004–2007 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Nabers authored 55 published opinions for the court (2004–2007), plus 4 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Seymour (194 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. 18 of these were attributed to Nabers 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
2006	Ex Parte Seymour	946 So. 2d 536	194
2005	Continental Nat. Indem. Co. v. Fields	926 So. 2d 1033	64
2006	Davis v. Hanson Aggregates Southeast, Inc.	952 So. 2d 330	45
2004	Town of Cedar Bluff v. Citizens Caring for Children	904 So. 2d 1253	42
2007	Jones Food Co., Inc. v. Shipman	981 So. 2d 355	39
2006	Collins v. Rodgers· Dissent†	938 So. 2d 379	38
2007	Edwards v. Allied Home Mortg. Capital Corp.	962 So. 2d 194	37
2004	University of So. Ala. v. Progressive Ins.· Dissent†	904 So. 2d 1242	37
2006	Hamilton Ex Rel. Slate-Hamilton v. Connally	959 So. 2d 640	34
2004	Flint Constr. Co. v. Hall· Concurrence†	904 So. 2d 236	34
2006	Ex Parte Rawls· Dissent†	953 So. 2d 374	33
2006	Hiller Investments Inc. v. INSULTECH GROUP	957 So. 2d 1111	31
2005	Eb Investments v. Atlantis Development	930 So. 2d 502	29
2005	SOUTHTRUST BANK v. Webb-Stiles Co., Inc.	931 So. 2d 706	29
2005	R.D.N. v. A.M.N.†	918 So. 2d 100	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 66 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 Drayton Nabers on?: Drayton Nabers was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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3 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).