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 1995 / Served to 2001

Roger Miles Monroe

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Roger Miles Monroe was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 1995–2001 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

The University of Alabama
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Monroe authored 398 published opinions for the court (1995–2000), plus 61 dissents and 54 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Shellhouse v. Bentley (56 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. 338 of these were attributed to Monroe 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
1995	State Ex Rel. Shellhouse v. Bentley· Dissent†	666 So. 2d 517	56
1995	R.B. v. State Dept. of Human Resources· Concurrence†	669 So. 2d 187	45
1995	JK v. Lee County Dept. of Human Resources	668 So. 2d 813	42
1998	DuBois v. DuBois	714 So. 2d 308	39
1996	Consolidated Stores, Inc. v. Gargis· Concurrence†	686 So. 2d 268	39
1997	Vick v. Vick	688 So. 2d 852	38
1997	Romano v. Romano	703 So. 2d 374	37
1998	Nichols v. Ingram Plumbing· Concurrence†	710 So. 2d 454	35
1995	Duckett v. Duckett· Dissent†	669 So. 2d 195	35
1996	Dismukes v. Dorsey	686 So. 2d 298	34
2000	CB v. State Dept. of Human Resources	782 So. 2d 781	33
1997	Watts v. Watts	706 So. 2d 749	30
1995	Rogers v. Sims	671 So. 2d 714	28
1998	Jones v. Jones· Dissent†	722 So. 2d 768	26
1995	Jackson v. Jackson· Dissent†	656 So. 2d 875	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 514 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 Roger Miles Monroe on?: Roger Miles Monroe was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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6 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).