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 1914 / Served to 1951

Lucien D. Gardner

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Lucien D. Gardner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1914. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1876 · age 150
Tenure: 1914–1951 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1914	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Gardner authored 2,143 published opinions for the court (1914–1948), plus 97 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory (243 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. 243 of these were attributed to Gardner 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
1944	Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory	18 So. 2d 810	243
1941	Johnson v. State	5 So. 2d 632	116
1936	Arant v. State	167 So. 540	107
1939	State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy	186 So. 487	99
1943	Johnson v. Williams	13 So. 2d 683	89
1947	Greene v. Greene	30 So. 2d 444	85
1920	Reynolds v. Collier	85 So. 465	80
1930	Birmingham Baptist Hospital, Inc. v. Blackwell	128 So. 389	77
1934	Burns v. State	155 So. 561	76
1917	Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Lovejoy	78 So. 299	74
1921	United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. Millonas	89 So. 732	73
1933	Leary v. Adams	147 So. 391	72
1944	Sullivan v. Alabama Power Co.· Dissent	20 So. 2d 224	70
1926	Commercial Credit Co. v. Tarwater	110 So. 39	67
1943	Desilvey v. State	16 So. 2d 183	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 2,272 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 Lucien D. Gardner on?: Lucien D. Gardner was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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37 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).