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 1993 / Served to 2010

Sharon Gilbert Yates

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Sharon Gilbert Yates was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 1993–2010 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Yates authored 790 published opinions for the court (1993–2005), plus 90 dissents and 49 concurrences. Most cited: Scholl v. Parsons (119 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. 598 of these were attributed to Yates 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	Scholl v. Parsons	655 So. 2d 1060	119
1996	Golden v. Golden	681 So. 2d 605	109
2001	Robinson v. Robinson· Concurrence†	795 So. 2d 729	87
1995	Willing v. Willing	655 So. 2d 1064	77
2001	R.S.C. v. J.B.C.· Concurrence†	812 So. 2d 361	64
1994	Thompson v. Thompson	650 So. 2d 928	64
1996	Glover v. Glover	678 So. 2d 174	63
2002	L.B.S. v. L.M.S.· Concurrence†	826 So. 2d 178	60
1995	State Ex Rel. Shellhouse v. Bentley	666 So. 2d 517	56
1995	Dyas v. Dyas· Dissent†	683 So. 2d 971	52
2003	Ex Parte K.L.P.†	868 So. 2d 454	48
1993	Hartzell v. Hartzell	623 So. 2d 323	46
2004	Dunn v. Dunn· Dissent†	891 So. 2d 891	39
1996	J. M. v. State Dept. of Human Resources	686 So. 2d 1253	38
2002	State ex rel. A.S. v. R.S.C.†	853 So. 2d 228	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 931 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 Sharon Gilbert Yates on?: Sharon Gilbert Yates was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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17 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).