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 2001 / Former Justice

Lyn Stuart

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Lyn Stuart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1955 · age 71
Tenure: 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Auburn University
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Stuart authored 457 published opinions for the court (2001–2018), plus 50 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Hodurski (236 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. 344 of these were attributed to Stuart 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
2004	Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Hodurski· Dissent†	899 So. 2d 949	236
2002	Ex Parte Waldrop· Concurrence†	859 So. 2d 1181	166
2007	T.V. v. B.S.· Dissent†	971 So. 2d 1	158
2002	Ex Parte Perkins	851 So. 2d 453	137
2005	Waltman v. Rowell	913 So. 2d 1083	136
2003	Borders v. City of Huntsville· Dissent†	875 So. 2d 1168	104
2003	Bean Dredging v. Alabama Dept. of Revenue	855 So. 2d 513	96
2001	TWIN CITY FIRE INS. COMPANY v. Alfa Mut. Ins. Co.	817 So. 2d 687	93
2002	Ex Parte Turner	840 So. 2d 132	82
2007	Ex Parte Walker	972 So. 2d 737	78
2002	Ex Parte Alabama Dept. of Mental Health	837 So. 2d 808	78
2003	Newman v. Savas	878 So. 2d 1147	73
2001	Ex Parte Perkins	808 So. 2d 1143	71
2001	Ex Parte Pratt	815 So. 2d 532	67
2001	Ex Parte Broadnax	825 So. 2d 233	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 555 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 Lyn Stuart on?: Lyn Stuart was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

25 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).