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 2001

John Henry England Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

John Henry England Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1999. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1999–2001 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, England authored 50 published opinions for the court (1999–2001), plus 10 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Loggins (142 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. 29 of these were attributed to England 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
2000	Ex Parte Loggins	771 So. 2d 1093	142
2000	Ex Parte Inverness Construction Company	775 So. 2d 153	98
2001	Ex Parte Powell	796 So. 2d 434	47
2000	Reichert v. City of Mobile	776 So. 2d 761	35
2001	Williams v. State†	795 So. 2d 785	29
2000	Ex Parte Jim Burke Automotive, Inc.	776 So. 2d 118	29
2000	Lyons v. Walker Regional Medical Center	791 So. 2d 937	28
2000	State v. the American Tobacco Company· Dissent†	772 So. 2d 417	26
2000	Ex Parte Windom	763 So. 2d 946	26
2000	Mitchell Nissan, Inc. v. Foster· Dissent†	775 So. 2d 138	22
2000	Smith v. Jackson· Concurrence†	770 So. 2d 1068	22
2000	Ex Parte Borden	769 So. 2d 950	20
2000	Brewbaker Motors, Inc. v. Belser	776 So. 2d 110	19
2000	Ex Parte Jordan	779 So. 2d 183	17
2000	Biles v. Sullivan	793 So. 2d 708	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 63 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 Henry England Jr. on?: John Henry England Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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2 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).