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 1968 / Served to 1980

James N. Bloodworth

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

James N. Bloodworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1981
Tenure: 1968–1980 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Bloodworth authored 503 published opinions for the court (1968–1980), plus 22 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Horsley v. Horsley (349 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. 237 of these were attributed to Bloodworth 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
1973	Horsley v. Horsley	280 So. 2d 155	349
1978	Wheeler v. First Ala. Bk. of Birmingham	364 So. 2d 1190	170
1973	Daniels v. State	276 So. 2d 441	168
1979	Garrett v. Raytheon Co., Inc.	368 So. 2d 516	158
1974	Hager v. Hager	299 So. 2d 743	147
1979	Clements v. State	370 So. 2d 723	137
1975	Alabama Power Company v. Taylor	306 So. 2d 236	122
1974	State Farm Automobile Insurance Co. v. Reaves	292 So. 2d 95	107
1975	Beecher v. State· Concurrence†	320 So. 2d 727	102
1976	Mazer v. Jackson Ins. Agency	340 So. 2d 770	87
1979	Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc. v. Henderson	371 So. 2d 899	81
1979	Whitt v. State	370 So. 2d 736	80
1973	Horne v. Patton	287 So. 2d 824	79
1974	Powell v. Republic National Life Insurance Co.	300 So. 2d 359	77
1975	Loveless v. Graddick	325 So. 2d 137	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 558 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 James N. Bloodworth on?: James N. Bloodworth was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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11 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).