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 2011 / Active

J Michael Joiner

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

J Michael Joiner is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2011. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2011	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

Samford University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Joiner authored 140 published opinions for the court (2011–2018), plus 20 dissents and 48 concurrences. Most cited: Thompson v. State (43 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. 207 of these were attributed to Joiner 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
2012	Thompson v. State†	153 So. 3d 84	43
2012	Washington v. State†	95 So. 3d 26	33
2013	Stallworth v. State· Concurrence†	171 So. 3d 53	29
2011	McWhorter v. State†	142 So. 3d 1195	29
2014	Shanklin v. State†	187 So. 3d 734	22
2013	White v. State· Concurrence†	179 So. 3d 170	22
2015	Clark v. State· Concurrence†	196 So. 3d 285	20
2014	Marshall v. State†	182 So. 3d 573	19
2012	Enfinger v. State†	123 So. 3d 535	19
2014	Shaw v. State†	207 So. 3d 79	18
2011	Stanley v. State†	143 So. 3d 230	18
2012	Acra v. State†	105 So. 3d 460	17
2014	Williams v. State†	183 So. 3d 198	16
2013	Yeomans v. State†	195 So. 3d 1018	14
2016	Hall v. State· Concurrence†	223 So. 3d 977	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 208 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 is J Michael Joiner on?: J Michael Joiner is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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15 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).