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 2005 / Former Justice

Tom Parker

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Tom Parker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2005. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 2005 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Dartmouth College
Vanderbilt University

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 243 published opinions for the court (2005–2026), plus 27 dissents and 32 concurrences. Most cited: Hollis v. City of Brighton (91 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. 186 of these were attributed to Parker 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
2006	Hollis v. City of Brighton	950 So. 2d 300	91
2006	Drummond Co. v. Alabama Department of Transportation†	937 So. 2d 56	73
2011	E.H.G. v. E.R.G.†	73 So. 3d 634	45
2007	Exxon Mobil Corp. v. ALA. DEPT. OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES	986 So. 2d 1093	44
2006	Ex Parte Fuller	955 So. 2d 414	39
2010	Hollingsworth v. Dixon	55 So. 3d 1171	38
2005	G.C. v. E.B.· Dissent†	924 So. 2d 651	37
2016	Ex parte K.R.†	210 So. 3d 1106	35
2007	Ex Parte Smiths Water and Sewer Authority	982 So. 2d 484	35
2006	Ex Parte Sumter County	953 So. 2d 1235	35
2009	Lee v. Hale County Board of Education	14 So. 3d 844	33
2007	Atkinson v. State	986 So. 2d 408	32
2014	Bryant Bank v. Talmage Kirkland & Co.†	155 So. 3d 231	30
2014	Wyeth, Inc. v. Danny Weeks and Vicki Weeks· Dissent†	159 So. 3d 649	29
2013	Ankrom v. State†	152 So. 3d 397	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 302 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 Tom Parker on?: Tom Parker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Sources

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21 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).