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 1997 / Served to 2009

Harold See

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Harold See was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1997–2009 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Emporia State University

Judicial Record

In our data, See authored 431 published opinions for the court (1997–2009), plus 71 dissents and 100 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Butts (311 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. 258 of these were attributed to See 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
2000	Ex Parte Butts· Concurrence†	775 So. 2d 173	311
2002	Ex Parte Waldrop· Dissent†	859 So. 2d 1181	166
2003	Ex Parte Ocwen Federal Bank, FSB	872 So. 2d 810	160
2007	T.V. v. B.S.†	971 So. 2d 1	158
2000	Homes of Legend, Inc. v. McCollough	776 So. 2d 741	135
2003	Giambrone v. Douglas· Concurrence†	874 So. 2d 1046	134
1998	Ex Parte McNaughton	728 So. 2d 592	133
2005	State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Motley· Concurrence†	909 So. 2d 806	119
2001	Ex Parte Taylor	808 So. 2d 1215	111
2007	Retail Developers of Alabama, LLC v. East Gadsden Golf Club, Inc.	985 So. 2d 924	106
2003	Borders v. City of Huntsville· Dissent†	875 So. 2d 1168	104
1999	Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Vintson	753 So. 2d 497	103
2003	Ex Parte Key	890 So. 2d 1056	99
2001	Acceptance Ins. Co. v. Brown	832 So. 2d 1	99
2006	Hollis v. City of Brighton· Concurrence†	950 So. 2d 300	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 602 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 Harold See on?: Harold See was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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12 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).