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 2001 / Served to 2003

Roy S. Moore

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Roy S. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1947 · age 79
Tenure: 2001–2003 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 47 published opinions for the court (2001–2003), plus 44 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Ex Parte Fann (234 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. 83 of these were attributed to Moore 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
2001	Ex Parte Fann	810 So. 2d 631	234
2003	Borders v. City of Huntsville· Dissent†	875 So. 2d 1168	104
2003	Ex Parte Southern Energy Homes, Inc.	873 So. 2d 1116	62
2002	Alabama Power Co. v. Aldridge· Dissent†	854 So. 2d 554	62
2001	Ex Parte Berryhill	801 So. 2d 7	54
2001	Ex Parte Greenstreet, Inc.· Dissent†	806 So. 2d 1203	53
2002	Ex Parte Thicklin· Dissent†	824 So. 2d 723	49
2001	Grantham v. Vanderzyl	802 So. 2d 1077	45
2003	Ex Parte Ebbers· Dissent†	871 So. 2d 776	44
2003	Ex Parte Coleman· Concurrence†	861 So. 2d 1080	34
2002	Telfare v. City of Huntsville	841 So. 2d 1222	32
2001	Ex Parte Anonymous	806 So. 2d 1269	27
2002	Ex Parte Wilson· Dissent†	854 So. 2d 1106	26
2001	C.V. v. J.M.J.· Concurrence†	810 So. 2d 700	25
2001	Ex Parte King· Dissent†	821 So. 2d 205	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 114 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 Roy S. Moore on?: Roy S. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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2 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).