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 1828 / Served to 1831

Simon L. Perry

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Simon L. Perry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (9 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 1828. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1828–1831 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1828	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Perry authored 26 published opinions for the court (1828–1831), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: McDaniel v. Moody (10 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. 27 of these were attributed to Perry 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
1831	McDaniel v. Moody†	3 Stew. 314	10
1830	Spann v. Boyd†	2 Stew. 480	8
1828	Pope v. Stout†	1 Stew. 375	7
1828	Bennett v. Black†	1 Stew. 494	6
1829	Anonymous†	2 Stew. 228	5
1828	M'Coll v. Oliver†	1 Stew. 510	5
1829	Taylor v. Rushing†	2 Stew. 160	4
1829	Stebbins v. Sutton†	2 Stew. 249	4
1828	Smith v. State†	1 Stew. 506	4
1828	Sutherland v. Cunningham†	1 Stew. 438	4
1831	Moffet v. Wooldridge†	3 Stew. 322	3
1830	Maury v. Olive†	2 Stew. 472	3
1830	McGowen v. Garrard†	2 Stew. 479	3
1831	Phillips v. Scoggins†	1 Stew. & P. 28	2
1831	Craig v. Atwood†	1 Stew. & P. 86	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 27 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 Simon L. Perry on?: Simon L. Perry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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3 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).