How do judges of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals / Joined 2009 / Served to 2010

Mary Becker Windom

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Mary Becker Windom was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 2009. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2009–2010 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2009	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Windom authored 36 published opinions for the court (2009–2026), plus 2 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Wilson v. State (48 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. 17 of these were attributed to Windom 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
2010	Wilson v. State†	142 So. 3d 732	48
2009	VanPelt v. State	74 So. 3d 32	41
2010	McCray v. State†	88 So. 3d 1	37
2010	Miller v. State· Separate†	63 So. 3d 676	34
2010	Mitchell v. State†	84 So. 3d 968	23
2009	Roderick Byrd v. State of Alabama.†	78 So. 3d 445	16
2010	Gholston v. State	57 So. 3d 178	15
2009	Moore v. State	49 So. 3d 228	15
2010	Hillard v. State†	53 So. 3d 165	10
2010	Green v. State†	61 So. 3d 386	8
2009	Johnson v. State	40 So. 3d 753	6
2009	Riley v. State· Dissent†	48 So. 3d 671	6
2009	Barrett v. State	33 So. 3d 1287	6
2010	Blake v. State†	61 So. 3d 1107	5
2010	Roderick Earl Jackson v. State of Alabama.†	127 So. 3d 1251	3

Showing the 15 most-cited of 41 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 Criminal Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Mary Becker Windom on?: Mary Becker Windom was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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1 year on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).