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 1904 / Served to 1940

John Crawford Anderson

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

John Crawford Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1904. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1863–1940
Tenure: 1904–1940 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1904	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Anderson authored 1,886 published opinions for the court (1904–1940), plus 42 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Hackett v. Cash (152 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. 956 of these were attributed to Anderson 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
1916	Hackett v. Cash†	196 Ala. 403	152
1916	Postal Tel. Cable Co. v. Minderhout†	195 Ala. 420	148
1921	Woodward Iron Co. v. Bradford	90 So. 803	100
1922	Greek v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co.· Concurrence	92 So. 458	94
1939	McDowell v. State	189 So. 183	76
1937	Beeland Wholesale Co. v. Kaufman· Concurrence	174 So. 516	70
1921	Banks v. State· Concurrence	93 So. 293	67
1916	Finney v. Studebaker Corp. of America†	196 Ala. 422	67
1908	Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. McWhorter†	156 Ala. 269	67
1905	Brady v. Brady†	144 Ala. 414	66
1911	Birmingham Railway, Light & Power Co. v. Fox†	174 Ala. 657	65
1917	Gardiner v. Solomon	75 So. 621	63
1912	Watts v. Montgomery Traction Co.†	175 Ala. 102	61
1916	Williams v. Schwarz· Separate†	197 Ala. 40	56
1911	State ex rel. Crenshaw v. Joseph· Concurrence†	175 Ala. 579	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,973 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 John Crawford Anderson on?: John Crawford Anderson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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37 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).