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 1985 / Served to 2007

Henry Ward McMillan

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Henry Ward McMillan was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–2007 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McMillan authored 1,257 published opinions for the court (1985–2009), plus 14 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Price v. State (127 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. 722 of these were attributed to McMillan 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	Price v. State	725 So. 2d 1003	127
1996	Arthur v. State	711 So. 2d 1031	110
1992	Harris v. State	632 So. 2d 503	110
1989	Siebert v. State	562 So. 2d 586	105
1997	Travis v. State	776 So. 2d 819	103
1986	Kinder v. State	515 So. 2d 55	103
1997	Boyd v. State	715 So. 2d 825	99
1995	Gaddy v. State	698 So. 2d 1100	96
1993	Oryang v. State	642 So. 2d 979	88
1993	Clark v. State	621 So. 2d 309	79
1992	Holladay v. State	629 So. 2d 673	78
1986	Coon v. State	494 So. 2d 184	78
1991	Smith v. State	588 So. 2d 561	73
1987	Hill v. State	516 So. 2d 876	73
2005	Calhoun v. State	932 So. 2d 923	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,276 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 Henry Ward McMillan on?: Henry Ward McMillan was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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22 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).