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 1969 / Active

L Charles Wright

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

L Charles Wright is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: Since 1969 · 57 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

University of North Texas

Judicial Record

In our data, Wright authored 1,966 published opinions for the court (1969–1999), plus 26 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Edwards v. Jesse Stutts, Inc. (155 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. 1,006 of these were attributed to Wright 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
1995	Edwards v. Jesse Stutts, Inc.	655 So. 2d 1012	155
1990	Thrasher v. Wilburn	574 So. 2d 839	140
1986	Lutz v. Lutz	485 So. 2d 1174	134
1975	City of Tuscaloosa v. Howard	318 So. 2d 729	103
1985	Rudd v. Rudd	467 So. 2d 964	79
1988	Genpak Corp. v. Gibson	534 So. 2d 312	71
1994	Welch v. Welch	636 So. 2d 464	69
1973	Borsdorf v. Mills	275 So. 2d 338	68
1976	Binns v. Maddox	327 So. 2d 726	65
1991	Hovater v. Hovater	577 So. 2d 461	59
1986	Tidwell v. Tidwell	496 So. 2d 91	59
1984	Gibson v. Nix	460 So. 2d 1346	59
1984	Ross v. Ross	447 So. 2d 812	59
1971	BF Goodrich Company v. Martin	253 So. 2d 37	59
1985	Brown v. ALA. DEPT. OF PENSIONS AND SEC.	473 So. 2d 533	50

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,012 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 is L Charles Wright on?: L Charles Wright is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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57 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).