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 1975 / Served to 1999

Janie L. Shores

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Janie L. Shores was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1932 · age 94
Tenure: 1975–1999 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Shores authored 1,399 published opinions for the court (1975–1999), plus 36 dissents and 30 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte McLendon (939 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. 578 of these were attributed to Shores 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
1984	Ex Parte McLendon	455 So. 2d 863	939
1986	Hammond v. City of Gadsden	493 So. 2d 1374	414
1995	Ex Parte Integon Corp.	672 So. 2d 497	365
1983	Ex Parte Cofer	440 So. 2d 1121	179
1982	National Sav. Life Ins. Co. v. Dutton	419 So. 2d 1357	175
1996	Allstate Ins. Co. v. Skelton	675 So. 2d 377	169
1996	State v. Hill	690 So. 2d 1201	167
1989	Ex Parte Siebert	555 So. 2d 780	166
1986	Lawler Mobile Homes, Inc. v. Tarver	492 So. 2d 297	154
1975	Jackson v. City of Florence	320 So. 2d 68	141
1985	Ex Parte Singleton	465 So. 2d 443	127
1995	Ex Parte American Resources Ins. Co., Inc.	663 So. 2d 932	122
1998	Ex Parte Woodall	730 So. 2d 652	120
1993	Ex Parte Coral	628 So. 2d 1004	118
1984	Foster v. Greer and Sons, Inc.· Dissent†	446 So. 2d 605	114

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,466 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 Janie L. Shores on?: Janie L. Shores was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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24 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).