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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 1995 / Served to 2001

Francis A. Long Sr.

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Francis A. Long Sr. was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1928–2012
Tenure: 1995–2001 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Long authored 313 published opinions for the court (1995–2001), plus 15 dissents and 11 concurrences. Most cited: Nunn v. State (149 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. 173 of these were attributed to Long 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
1997	Nunn v. State	697 So. 2d 497	149
1996	Puckett v. State	680 So. 2d 980	109
1999	Perkins v. State	808 So. 2d 1041	97
2000	Jackson v. State	791 So. 2d 979	91
1999	Melson v. State	775 So. 2d 857	90
1999	Whitehead v. State	777 So. 2d 781	84
2000	Ferguson v. State	814 So. 2d 925	80
2000	Reeves v. State	807 So. 2d 18	79
1999	Freeman v. State	776 So. 2d 160	67
1999	Loggins v. State	771 So. 2d 1070	63
1999	Lawhorn v. State	756 So. 2d 971	62
2000	Gamble v. State	791 So. 2d 409	55
1999	Woods v. State	789 So. 2d 896	47
1997	Borden v. State	711 So. 2d 498	47
1995	Clayton v. State	669 So. 2d 220	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 339 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 Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Francis A. Long Sr. on?: Francis A. Long Sr. was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

Sources

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