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 1999 / Served to 2005

Jean Brown

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Jean Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1999–2005 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1999	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Samford University
The University of Alabama
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Brown authored 156 published opinions for the court (1999–2005), plus 20 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Waldrop (166 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. 69 of these were attributed to Brown 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
2002	Ex Parte Waldrop	859 So. 2d 1181	166
2003	Butler v. Town of Argo	871 So. 2d 1	164
2003	Ex Parte Nall	879 So. 2d 541	106
2001	Nationwide Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co. v. DPF ARCHITECTS	792 So. 2d 369	99
2004	Haley v. Barbour County	885 So. 2d 783	92
2001	Sieber v. Campbell	810 So. 2d 641	85
2001	Ex Parte Hall	820 So. 2d 152	85
2001	Rector v. Better Houses, Inc.	820 So. 2d 75	81
2004	New Properties, L.L.C. v. Stewart	905 So. 2d 797	78
2001	Ex Parte McWilliams	812 So. 2d 318	70
2000	Parkway Dodge, Inc. v. Yarbrough	779 So. 2d 1205	68
2004	Ex Parte Covington Pike Dodge, Inc.	904 So. 2d 226	67
2002	Ex Parte Pike Fabrication, Inc.	859 So. 2d 1089	67
2000	Mock v. Allen	783 So. 2d 828	59
2000	Brushwitz v. Ezell	757 So. 2d 423	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 185 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 Jean Brown on?: Jean Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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6 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).