How do judges of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Alabama Court of Civil Appeals / Joined 1989 / Served to 1993

Robert J. Russell

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Robert J. Russell was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. He previously served on the Missouri Court of Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1989–1993 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1970	Missouri Court of Appeals	–	–
1989	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

University of Kansas
University of Missouri-Columbia

Judicial Record

In our data, Russell authored 408 published opinions for the court (1973–1993), plus 22 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Reuter v. Neese (63 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. 281 of these were attributed to Russell 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
1991	Reuter v. Neese	586 So. 2d 232	63
1990	Hall v. Hall	571 So. 2d 1176	42
1991	Kent v. Kent	587 So. 2d 409	41
1992	Ex parte K.S.G.†	645 So. 2d 297	40
1992	Klapal v. Brannon	610 So. 2d 1167	37
1993	Driver v. Hice	618 So. 2d 129	34
1991	Slater v. Slater	587 So. 2d 376	31
1990	Moore v. Moore· Dissent†	575 So. 2d 95	31
1991	Moore v. Graham	590 So. 2d 293	30
1990	Bayliss v. Bayliss	575 So. 2d 1117	28
1991	Stewart v. Kelley	587 So. 2d 384	27
1991	Seamon v. Seamon	587 So. 2d 333	26
1991	Black v. Allen	587 So. 2d 349	25
1990	Smith v. Smith	568 So. 2d 838	24
1992	Murphree v. Murphree	600 So. 2d 301	23

Showing the 15 most-cited of 440 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 Civil Appeals reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Robert J. Russell on?: Robert J. Russell was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

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4 years on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).