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 1969 / Served to 1972

Thomas W. Thagard

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

Thomas W. Thagard was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1902–1975
Tenure: 1969–1972 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

Auburn University
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Thagard authored 59 published opinions for the court (1969–1975), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Anderson (23 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. 39 of these were attributed to Thagard 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
1972	Alabama Farm Bureau Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Anderson	263 So. 2d 149	23
1972	Lammers v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	261 So. 2d 757	22
1970	King v. Sturgis	233 So. 2d 495	18
1969	Cox v. Poer	229 So. 2d 797	18
1970	Ledyard v. Ledyard	237 So. 2d 511	14
1975	Davis-Day Timber Company, Inc. v. Gentry	309 So. 2d 97	13
1970	Walker v. Williams & Bouler Construction Company	241 So. 2d 896	13
1970	Hardy v. Hardy	240 So. 2d 601	12
1970	State v. Barnes	233 So. 2d 83	12
1969	Cullman City Board of Education v. Buchanon	231 So. 2d 134	12
1971	Hora v. Hora	244 So. 2d 601	11
1970	Nichols v. Nichols†	46 Ala. App. 67	11
1970	English v. MacOn	238 So. 2d 733	10
1971	National Security Fire & Casualty Insurance v. Brannon	253 So. 2d 777	9
1969	Harden v. Alabama Great Southern Railroad Co.	229 So. 2d 803	9

Showing the 15 most-cited of 60 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 Thomas W. Thagard on?: Thomas W. Thagard was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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3 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).