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 1904 / Served to 1912

Rober Tennent Simpson

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Rober Tennent Simpson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1904. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1837–1912
Tenure: 1904–1912 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1904	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Simpson authored 666 published opinions for the court (1904–1912), plus 8 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Ex parte Dickens (86 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. 678 of these were attributed to Simpson 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
1909	Ex parte Dickens†	162 Ala. 272	86
1912	Snodgrass v. Snodgrass†	176 Ala. 276	69
1907	Bluett v. State†	151 Ala. 41	67
1907	Bessemer Coal, Iron & Land Co. v. Doak†	152 Ala. 166	66
1912	City of Birmingham v. Wills· Dissent†	178 Ala. 198	62
1911	State ex rel. Crenshaw v. Joseph· Dissent†	175 Ala. 579	56
1904	City Council v. Kelly†	142 Ala. 552	55
1910	Shriner v. Craft†	166 Ala. 146	54
1904	Chastang v. Chastang†	141 Ala. 451	54
1908	Atlanta & Birmingham A. L. Ry. v. Brown†	158 Ala. 607	53
1909	Andrews v. State†	159 Ala. 14	51
1910	Woodward Iron Co. v. Brown†	167 Ala. 316	48
1912	Birmingham R. L. & P. Co. v. Saxon†	179 Ala. 136	46
1908	George E. Wood Lumber Co. v. Williams†	157 Ala. 73	45
1907	Butts v. Cooper†	152 Ala. 375	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 681 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 Rober Tennent Simpson on?: Rober Tennent Simpson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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8 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).