How do judges of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1995 / Served to 2007

John B. Crawley

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

John B. Crawley was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1940–2013
Tenure: 1995–2007 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Crawley authored 852 published opinions for the court (1995–2007), plus 260 dissents and 179 concurrences. Most cited: L.M. v. D.D.F. (168 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. 823 of these were attributed to Crawley 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	L.M. v. D.D.F.· Concurrence†	840 So. 2d 171	168
1996	Golden v. Golden· Dissent†	681 So. 2d 605	109
2004	B.M. v. State†	895 So. 2d 319	99
1995	Albertson v. Albertson	678 So. 2d 118	88
2003	C.J.L. v. M.W.B.†	868 So. 2d 451	71
2003	TenEyck v. TenEyck	885 So. 2d 146	66
2001	R.S.C. v. J.B.C.· Concurrence†	812 So. 2d 361	64
1996	Glover v. Glover· Dissent†	678 So. 2d 174	63
2002	L.B.S. v. L.M.S.· Dissent†	826 So. 2d 178	60
2002	T.L.D. v. C.G.†	849 So. 2d 200	58
1995	State Ex Rel. Shellhouse v. Bentley· Concurrence†	666 So. 2d 517	56
2006	Parker v. Parker	946 So. 2d 480	54
2003	Smith v. Smith	887 So. 2d 257	54
1997	G.C. v. G.D.†	712 So. 2d 1091	51
2002	Farmer v. Farmer	842 So. 2d 679	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,292 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 Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was John B. Crawley on?: John B. Crawley was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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12 years on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).