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 1956 / Served to 1957

Norman T. Spann

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Norman T. Spann was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1956. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1956–1957 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1956	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Spann authored 25 published opinions for the court (1956). Most cited: Limbaugh v. Comer (23 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. 20 of these were attributed to Spann 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
1956	Limbaugh v. Comer	90 So. 2d 246	23
1956	Taylor v. Brownell-O'Hear Pontiac Company	91 So. 2d 828	21
1956	Lovelace v. McMillan	90 So. 2d 822	16
1956	McBee v. McBee	91 So. 2d 675	10
1956	Shelby County v. Oldham†	264 Ala. 626	9
1956	Hart v. Baptist Foundation of Alabama†	264 Ala. 632	8
1956	Ex parte Markle†	264 Ala. 376	6
1956	Hill v. State	88 So. 2d 887	5
1956	Hochman v. State†	265 Ala. 404	4
1956	Taylor v. Gray†	265 Ala. 279	4
1956	Modern Credit Co. v. State ex rel. Thetford†	265 Ala. 248	3
1956	Fuller v. State†	265 Ala. 695	3
1956	Ex Parte City Sales Company†	264 Ala. 637	3
1956	Cloverland Apartments, Inc. v. Ansley Cloverland Sundries†	265 Ala. 380	2
1956	Simmons v. Chestnut†	265 Ala. 256	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Norman T. Spann on?: Norman T. Spann was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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1 year 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).