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 1997 / Served to 2007

Pamela Baschab

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Pamela Baschab was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2007 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baschab authored 455 published opinions for the court (1997–2008), plus 58 dissents and 50 concurrences. Most cited: Farrior v. State (166 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. 319 of these were attributed to Baschab 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
1998	Farrior v. State	728 So. 2d 691	166
1998	Hyde v. State	778 So. 2d 199	160
1998	Smith v. State	756 So. 2d 892	93
1999	Wilson v. State	777 So. 2d 856	91
1999	Maples v. State	758 So. 2d 1	89
1999	Williams v. State	795 So. 2d 753	79
2003	Peraita v. State	897 So. 2d 1161	66
1997	Hayes v. State	717 So. 2d 30	65
1997	Arrington v. State	716 So. 2d 237	63
2003	Lee v. State	898 So. 2d 790	61
1998	Davis v. State	740 So. 2d 1115	61
2006	Holt v. State· Concurrence†	960 So. 2d 726	56
2000	Williams v. State	783 So. 2d 108	53
1997	Lockhart v. State	715 So. 2d 895	48
1999	Norris v. State· Dissent†	793 So. 2d 847	47

Showing the 15 most-cited of 563 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 Pamela Baschab on?: Pamela Baschab was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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10 years 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).