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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1996 / Served to 2000

Perry O. Hooper Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Perry O. Hooper Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1996. He previously served on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1925 · age 101
Tenure: 1996–2000 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–
1996	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Hooper authored 95 published opinions for the court (1996–2001), plus 104 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Trinity Industries, Inc. (428 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. 153 of these were attributed to Hooper 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
1996	Ex Parte Trinity Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	680 So. 2d 262	428
1997	Hobson v. American Cast Iron Pipe Co.	690 So. 2d 341	148
1998	Ex Parte Dan Tucker Auto Sales, Inc.	718 So. 2d 33	146
1996	Ex Parte Slaton	680 So. 2d 909	144
1999	State Farm Fire & Cas. Co. v. Owen	729 So. 2d 834	132
1997	Ex Parte Dyess	709 So. 2d 447	92
1996	Ex Parte Compass Bank· Concurrence†	686 So. 2d 1135	90
1999	Ex Parte Roberson· Concurrence†	749 So. 2d 441	80
1999	Ex Parte Stewart	730 So. 2d 1246	79
1998	Ex Parte Clark· Dissent†	728 So. 2d 1126	77
2000	Ex Parte Minor	780 So. 2d 796	76
1999	Ex Parte Pfizer, Inc.	746 So. 2d 960	74
2001	Ex Parte Woods	789 So. 2d 941	73
1997	Ex Parte Isbell· Dissent†	708 So. 2d 571	72
2000	Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Goodman· Dissent†	789 So. 2d 166	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 221 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 Perry O. Hooper Sr. on?: Perry O. Hooper Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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4 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).