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 1969 / Served to 1975

Reneau P. Almon

Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals

Reneau P. Almon was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1975 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Almon authored 103 published opinions for the court (1969–1975), plus 9 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Ireland v. State (146 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. 63 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
1971	Ireland v. State	250 So. 2d 602	146
1972	Payne v. State	265 So. 2d 185	53
1972	Sellers v. State	263 So. 2d 156	43
1973	Pierce v. State	293 So. 2d 483	40
1973	Flurry v. State	289 So. 2d 632	36
1972	Shewey v. State	267 So. 2d 520	33
1973	Owens v. State· Dissent†	282 So. 2d 402	31
1970	Oliver v. State	238 So. 2d 916	31
1972	Jones v. State	258 So. 2d 910	28
1971	Junior v. State	257 So. 2d 844	27
1973	Nelson v. State· Dissent†	278 So. 2d 734	24
1974	Edgerson v. State	302 So. 2d 556	23
1971	Payton v. State	254 So. 2d 351	23
1970	DeFranze v. State	241 So. 2d 125	22
1969	Anderson v. State	235 So. 2d 902	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 115 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 Reneau P. Almon on?: Reneau P. Almon was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.

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6 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).