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Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1975 / Served to 1999

Reneau P. Almon

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Reneau P. Almon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1975–1999 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Almon authored 1,297 published opinions for the court (1975–1999), plus 52 dissents and 31 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Bayliss (279 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. 585 of these were attributed to Almon 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
1989	Ex Parte Bayliss· Dissent†	550 So. 2d 986	279
1978	Bankston v. State	358 So. 2d 1040	241
1990	Bean v. Craig	557 So. 2d 1249	190
1997	Ex Parte Graham	702 So. 2d 1215	140
1998	Ex Parte McNaughton· Dissent†	728 So. 2d 592	133
1990	Dairyland Ins. Co. v. Jackson	566 So. 2d 723	130
1991	Powe v. State· Dissent†	597 So. 2d 721	124
1986	Duke v. Young	496 So. 2d 37	118
1985	General Motors Corp. v. Edwards· Dissent†	482 So. 2d 1176	118
1993	Thomas v. BSE Indus. Contractors, Inc.	624 So. 2d 1041	110
1989	Ex Parte Martin	548 So. 2d 496	109
1998	Ex Parte Napier· Dissent†	723 So. 2d 49	107
1994	Ex Parte Thomas	659 So. 2d 3	99
1992	Culbreth v. Woodham Plumbing Co., Inc.	599 So. 2d 1120	91
1990	Sea Calm Shipping Co., S.A. v. Cooks	565 So. 2d 212	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,380 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 Reneau P. Almon on?: Reneau P. Almon was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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24 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).