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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 1975 / Served to 1985

T. Eric Embry

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

T. Eric Embry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1921 · age 105
Tenure: 1975–1985 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Embry authored 601 published opinions for the court (1975–1985), plus 48 dissents and 20 concurrences. Most cited: National Sav. Life Ins. Co. v. Dutton (175 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. 269 of these were attributed to Embry 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
1982	National Sav. Life Ins. Co. v. Dutton· Concurrence†	419 So. 2d 1357	175
1981	Aspinwall v. Gowens· Concurrence†	405 So. 2d 134	137
1985	Dennis v. Dobbs	474 So. 2d 77	133
1983	Ex Parte Smith	438 So. 2d 766	133
1979	B & M HOMES, INC. v. Hogan	376 So. 2d 667	127
1981	Ex Parte Dorsey Trailers, Inc.	397 So. 2d 98	117
1983	Tucker v. Nichols· Dissent†	431 So. 2d 1263	104
1983	Ex Parte Alabama Power Co.	431 So. 2d 151	103
1981	JC Jacobs Banking Co. v. Campbell	406 So. 2d 834	102
1975	Beecher v. State	320 So. 2d 727	102
1980	SHADES, ETC. v. Cobbs, Allen & Hall Mortg. Co.	390 So. 2d 601	101
1984	Rice v. United Ins. Co. of America	465 So. 2d 1100	95
1983	COLUMBIA ENGINEERING INTERN., LTD. v. Espey· Concurrence†	429 So. 2d 955	93
1979	Hill v. State· Dissent†	366 So. 2d 318	93
1976	Vines v. Plantation Motor Lodge	336 So. 2d 1338	89

Showing the 15 most-cited of 669 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 T. Eric Embry on?: T. Eric Embry was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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10 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).