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 1940 / Served to 1971

J. Edwin Livingston

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

J. Edwin Livingston was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1940. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1971
Tenure: 1940–1971 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1940	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Auburn University
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Livingston authored 1,007 published opinions for the court (1940–1970), plus 20 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Young v. State (220 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. 408 of these were attributed to Livingston 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
1969	Young v. State	220 So. 2d 843	220
1959	Fuller v. State	113 So. 2d 153	130
1969	Bridges v. State	225 So. 2d 821	106
1962	Kelly v. State	139 So. 2d 326	83
1970	Seibold v. State	253 So. 2d 302	82
1941	George v. State	200 So. 602	82
1961	Roan v. Smith	133 So. 2d 224	73
1950	Maund v. State	48 So. 2d 553	71
1953	State v. Calumet & Hecla Consol. Copper Co.	66 So. 2d 726	66
1941	Dyer v. State	4 So. 2d 311	64
1944	Lee v. State	18 So. 2d 706	62
1943	Woodson v. Hare	13 So. 2d 172	62
1943	Robinson v. State	11 So. 2d 732	61
1954	Wooten v. Roden	71 So. 2d 802	50
1946	McGuff v. State	27 So. 2d 241	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,039 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 J. Edwin Livingston on?: J. Edwin Livingston was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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31 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).