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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1991 / Served to 1997

Kenneth F. Ingram

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Kenneth F. Ingram was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1991. He previously served on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1929 · age 97
Tenure: 1991–1997 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–
1991	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Faulkner University
Auburn University

Judicial Record

In our data, Ingram authored 728 published opinions for the court (1987–1997), plus 39 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Haney (178 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. 383 of these were attributed to Ingram 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
1992	Ex Parte Haney	603 So. 2d 412	178
1992	McClendon v. Mountain Top Flea Market· Concurrence†	601 So. 2d 957	177
1995	Wright v. Wright	654 So. 2d 542	153
1993	Ex Parte McWilliams	640 So. 2d 1015	134
1991	Powe v. State	597 So. 2d 721	124
1993	Ex Parte Jackson	614 So. 2d 405	122
1992	Ex Parte State	608 So. 2d 762	121
1991	Ex Parte Holton	590 So. 2d 918	105
1996	Ex Parte State Dept. of Revenue	683 So. 2d 980	99
1988	Bowman v. STATE DEPT. OF HUMAN RESOURCES	534 So. 2d 304	94
1994	Martin v. Arnold	643 So. 2d 564	93
1993	Ex Parte Crymes	630 So. 2d 125	88
1993	Long v. Jefferson County· Dissent†	623 So. 2d 1130	77
1995	Ex Parte Ziglar	669 So. 2d 133	76
1993	Ex Parte Veazey· Dissent†	637 So. 2d 1348	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 777 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 Kenneth F. Ingram on?: Kenneth F. Ingram was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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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).