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 1989 / Served to 1999

Mark Kennedy

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Mark Kennedy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1989–1999 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Auburn University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Kennedy authored 510 published opinions for the court (1989–1999), plus 46 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Bankhead (312 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. 261 of these were attributed to Kennedy 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
1991	Ex Parte Bankhead	585 So. 2d 112	312
1996	Jim Burke Automotive, Inc. v. Beavers	674 So. 2d 1260	205
1999	Delchamps, Inc. v. Bryant· Concurrence†	738 So. 2d 824	147
1991	Tuscaloosa County Com'n v. Deputy Sheriffs	589 So. 2d 687	140
1997	Ex Parte Smith	698 So. 2d 219	129
1992	Spradlin v. Spradlin	601 So. 2d 76	125
1993	Ex Parte Carroll	627 So. 2d 874	123
1992	McLemore v. Fleming	604 So. 2d 353	116
1989	Ex Parte Whisenhant	555 So. 2d 235	108
1992	Ex Parte Hart	612 So. 2d 536	100
1991	Ex Parte Smith	581 So. 2d 531	95
1998	City of Birmingham v. Business Realty Inv. Co.	722 So. 2d 747	94
1991	Dixon v. State	588 So. 2d 903	89
1995	Ex Parte Sockwell· Dissent†	675 So. 2d 38	82
1993	Ex Parte Veazey†	637 So. 2d 1348	76

Showing the 15 most-cited of 571 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 Mark Kennedy on?: Mark Kennedy was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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10 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).