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 1968 / Served to 1968

John B. Kohn

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

John B. Kohn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1902 · age 124
Tenure: 1968–1968

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Kohn authored 38 published opinions for the court (1968). Most cited: Hubbard v. State (73 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. 15 of these were attributed to Kohn 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
1968	Hubbard v. State	215 So. 2d 261	73
1968	State Tenure Commission v. Madison County Board of Education	213 So. 2d 823	58
1968	Foodtown Stores, Inc. v. Patterson	213 So. 2d 211	57
1968	Ex Parte Huguley Water System	213 So. 2d 799	44
1968	Smith v. Brown	213 So. 2d 374	29
1968	Watts v. State	210 So. 2d 805	28
1968	Ott v. Moody	216 So. 2d 177	24
1968	Alabama State Bar Ex Rel. Steiner v. Moore	213 So. 2d 404	23
1968	Edgehill Corporation v. Hutchens	213 So. 2d 225	19
1968	Lietz v. Pfuehler	215 So. 2d 723	17
1968	St. Clair Industries, Inc. v. Harmon's Pipe & Fitting Co.	213 So. 2d 201	16
1968	Argo v. State	213 So. 2d 244	15
1968	Lee v. Moore	213 So. 2d 197	15
1968	Citizens Walgreen Drug Agency, Inc. v. Gulf Insurance	213 So. 2d 814	13
1968	Starlite Lanes, Inc. v. State	214 So. 2d 324	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 38 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 B. Kohn on?: John B. Kohn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1968. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).