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 2009 / Active

J Elizabeth Kellum

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

J Elizabeth Kellum is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, serving since 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2009 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Kellum authored 217 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 7 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Reeves v. State (44 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. 177 of these were attributed to Kellum 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
2016	Reeves v. State†	226 So. 3d 711	44
2010	James v. State†	61 So. 3d 357	38
2013	Mashburn v. State†	148 So. 3d 1094	36
2011	Bryant v. State†	181 So. 3d 1087	34
2013	Broadnax v. State†	130 So. 3d 1232	32
2011	Dominique Ray v. State of Alabama.†	80 So. 3d 965	29
2011	C.B.D. v. State· Separate†	90 So. 3d 227	28
2010	Reynolds v. State†	114 So. 3d 61	21
2015	Clark v. State†	196 So. 3d 285	20
2012	Windsor v. State†	110 So. 3d 876	20
2010	Martin v. State	62 So. 3d 1050	19
2012	Williams v. State†	104 So. 3d 254	18
2010	Phillips v. State†	65 So. 3d 971	18
2010	Thomas Robert Lane v. State of Alabama.	80 So. 3d 280	18
2016	Horton v. State†	217 So. 3d 27	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 259 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 Elizabeth Kellum on?: J Elizabeth Kellum is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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17 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).