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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 2005 / Former Justice

Michael F. Bolin

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Michael F. Bolin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1948 · age 78
Tenure: 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Samford University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bolin authored 327 published opinions for the court (2005–2022), plus 11 dissents and 39 concurrences. Most cited: KGS Steel, Inc. v. McInish (150 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. 252 of these were attributed to Bolin 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
2008	KGS Steel, Inc. v. McInish	47 So. 3d 767	150
2006	Mantiply v. Mantiply	951 So. 2d 638	82
2005	Pontius v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.	915 So. 2d 557	76
2013	Teplick v. Moulton†	116 So. 3d 1119	69
2007	LLOYD NOLAND FOUNDATION v. HealthSouth Corp.	979 So. 2d 784	58
2008	E.W.H. v. A.M.P.†	997 So. 2d 1008	55
2011	Allsopp v. Bolding, 1100432 (Ala. 9-30-2011)†	86 So. 3d 952	53
2011	E.H.G. v. E.R.G.· Concurrence†	73 So. 3d 634	45
2006	SB v. Saint James School	959 So. 2d 72	45
2009	M.D.C. v. K.D.†	39 So. 3d 1117	42
2014	Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. v. U.S. Bank National Ass'n†	148 So. 3d 1060	41
2014	Tucker v. Tombigbee Healthcare Authority†	153 So. 3d 734	40
2005	Ex Parte Taylor	10 So. 3d 1075	40
2005	G.C. v. E.B.· Concurrence†	924 So. 2d 651	37
2013	Christopher v. Christopher· Concurrence†	145 So. 3d 60	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 378 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 Michael F. Bolin on?: Michael F. Bolin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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21 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).