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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1986 / Served to 1995

Henry B. Steagall II

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Henry B. Steagall II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1986–1995 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Auburn University
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Steagall authored 513 published opinions for the court (1986–1995), plus 49 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Andrews v. Merritt Oil Co., Inc. (402 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. 291 of these were attributed to Steagall 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
1992	Andrews v. Merritt Oil Co., Inc.	612 So. 2d 409	402
1986	Ex Parte Magwood	494 So. 2d 154	175
1993	Ex Parte Johnson	620 So. 2d 709	154
1991	Ex Parte Henderson	583 So. 2d 305	143
1988	Ex Parte Lynn	543 So. 2d 709	112
1987	Branch v. Southtrust Bank of Dothan, N.A.	514 So. 2d 1373	100
1992	Bama Budweiser v. Anheuser-Busch	611 So. 2d 238	74
1990	Pardue v. State	571 So. 2d 333	74
1992	Baker v. Bennett	603 So. 2d 928	65
1990	Brown v. State· Dissent†	565 So. 2d 585	65
1986	Ex Parte Musgrove.	519 So. 2d 586	62
1987	Ex Parte Peoples	510 So. 2d 574	60
1993	Gray v. Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co.	623 So. 2d 1156	57
1994	Ex Parte Jackson	674 So. 2d 1365	56
1986	Harmon v. Motors Ins. Corp.	493 So. 2d 1370	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 577 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 Henry B. Steagall II on?: Henry B. Steagall II was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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9 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).