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 2007 / Active

Terry A. Moore

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Terry A. Moore is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

University of South Alabama
The University of Alabama

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 910 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 85 dissents and 149 concurrences. Most cited: Pratt v. Pratt (54 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. 785 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
2010	Pratt v. Pratt†	56 So. 3d 638	54
2007	Decker v. Decker	984 So. 2d 1216	46
2008	HH v. Baldwin County DHR	989 So. 2d 1094	44
2010	Shewbart v. Shewbart†	64 So. 3d 1080	43
2008	J.B. v. Cleburne County Dhr· Dissent†	992 So. 2d 34	43
2008	M.A.J. v. S.F.†	994 So. 2d 280	42
2016	K.S.B. v. M.C.B.†	219 So. 3d 650	40
2009	T.B. v. T.H.†	30 So. 3d 429	40
2010	K.C.G. v. S.J.R.†	46 So. 3d 499	39
2009	Lackey v. Lackey	18 So. 3d 393	36
2007	Ex Parte Publix Super Markets, Inc.	963 So. 2d 654	36
2011	A.M.F. v. Tuscaloosa County Department of Human Resources· Concurrence†	75 So. 3d 1206	34
2008	J.B. v. DeKalb County Department of Human Resources†	12 So. 3d 100	33
2008	T.B. v. Cullman County Department of Human Resources	6 So. 3d 1195	33
2012	Slaby v. Mountain River Estates Residential Ass'n†	100 So. 3d 569	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,144 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 is Terry A. Moore on?: Terry A. Moore is a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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19 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).