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 1972 / Served to 1986

James H. Faulkner

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

James H. Faulkner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1916–2008
Tenure: 1972–1986 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Faulkner authored 771 published opinions for the court (1972–1986), plus 35 dissents and 17 concurrences. Most cited: Armstrong v. State (416 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. 320 of these were attributed to Faulkner 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
1975	Armstrong v. State· Dissent†	312 So. 2d 620	416
1976	Casrell v. Altec Industries, Inc.	335 So. 2d 128	247
1979	Cook v. State	369 So. 2d 1251	166
1973	Fletcher v. State	277 So. 2d 882	156
1983	Torres v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co.	438 So. 2d 757	140
1975	White v. State	314 So. 2d 857	125
1981	Fireman's Fund Am. Ins. Co. v. Coleman	394 So. 2d 334	114
1983	Nat. SEC. Fire & Cas. Co. v. Bowen	447 So. 2d 133	108
1973	Fulghum v. State	277 So. 2d 886	103
1984	Ex Parte Waldrop	459 So. 2d 959	98
1973	Miller v. State	275 So. 2d 675	92
1975	Clemmons v. State· Concurrence†	321 So. 2d 238	91
1975	Folmar v. Montgomery Fair Company, Inc.	309 So. 2d 818	89
1973	Carter v. State	277 So. 2d 896	88
1979	Winn-Dixie Montgomery, Inc. v. Henderson· Dissent†	371 So. 2d 899	81

Showing the 15 most-cited of 823 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 H. Faulkner on?: James H. Faulkner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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14 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).