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 2007 / Former Justice

Glenn Murdock

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Glenn Murdock was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (9 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2007. He previously served on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–
2007	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Murdock authored 508 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 245 dissents and 393 concurrences. Most cited: DMP v. State Dept. of Human Resources (71 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. 883 of these were attributed to Murdock 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
2003	DMP v. State Dept. of Human Resources	871 So. 2d 77	71
2002	City of Prattville v. Post	831 So. 2d 622	69
2003	TenEyck v. TenEyck· Dissent†	885 So. 2d 146	66
2001	R.S.C. v. J.B.C.†	812 So. 2d 361	64
2013	State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Brechbill· Concurrence†	144 So. 3d 248	62
2002	L.B.S. v. L.M.S.· Concurrence†	826 So. 2d 178	60
2002	T.L.D. v. C.G.· Concurrence†	849 So. 2d 200	58
2006	Hubbard v. Hubbard	935 So. 2d 1191	57
2004	J.S.M. v. P.J.· Concurrence†	902 So. 2d 89	55
2008	Ex Parte Kennedy	992 So. 2d 1276	54
2006	Parker v. Parker· Concurrence†	946 So. 2d 480	54
2008	Cadle Co. v. Shabani· Dissent†	4 So. 3d 460	53
2005	Gary v. Crouch· Concurrence†	923 So. 2d 1130	51
2010	Walker v. City of Huntsville· Concurrence†	62 So. 3d 474	50
2004	Heaston v. Nabors· Dissent†	889 So. 2d 588	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,147 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 Glenn Murdock on?: Glenn Murdock was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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19 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).