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 1931 / Served to 1943

Thomas Edmund Knight

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Thomas Edmund Knight was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1931. They previously served on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1898–1937
Tenure: 1931–1943 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1931	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–
1931	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Knight authored 641 published opinions for the court (1931–1941), plus 9 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy (99 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. 6 of these were attributed to Knight 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
1939	State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy· Dissent	186 So. 487	99
1937	Lamson & Sessions Bolt Co. v. McCarty	173 So. 388	81
1933	Ex Parte Thompson	152 So. 229	79
1938	Ex Parte Burch	184 So. 694	67
1936	Yeilding v. State Ex Rel. Wilkinson	167 So. 580	60
1936	Franklin v. State Ex Rel. Alabama State Milk Control Board	169 So. 295	58
1932	Barnett v. Britling Cafeteria Co.· Dissent	143 So. 813	53
1939	Alabama Power Co. v. City of Fort Payne	187 So. 632	49
1933	McGifford v. Protective Life Ins. Co.	151 So. 349	43
1935	Berry v. State	165 So. 97	42
1932	Powell v. State	141 So. 201	42
1937	Tuscaloosa Veneer Co. v. Martin	172 So. 608	41
1933	Prudential Ins. Co. v. Calvin	148 So. 837	40
1932	Wood v. Estes	139 So. 331	39
1937	Nachman v. State Tax Commission	173 So. 25	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 652 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 Thomas Edmund Knight on?: Thomas Edmund Knight was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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12 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).