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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 2000 / Served to 2012

Tom Woodall

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Tom Woodall was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 2000. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1950 · age 76
Tenure: 2000–2012 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2000	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Education

Millsaps College
University of Virginia-Main Campus

Judicial Record

In our data, Woodall authored 413 published opinions for the court (2001–2012), plus 40 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Hodurski (236 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. 194 of these were attributed to Woodall 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
2004	Blue Cross and Blue Shield v. Hodurski· Dissent†	899 So. 2d 949	236
2008	White Sands Group, LLC v. PRS II, LLC	998 So. 2d 1042	196
2002	Patterson v. Gladwin Corp.	835 So. 2d 137	160
2003	Avis Rent a Car Systems, Inc. v. Heilman	876 So. 2d 1111	120
2003	Ex Parte Troutman Sanders, LLP	866 So. 2d 547	117
2002	Creola Land Dev., Inc. v. Bentbrooke Housing, LLC	828 So. 2d 285	106
2007	Jimmy Day Plumbing & Heating, Inc. v. Smith	964 So. 2d 1	96
2004	Dzwonkowski v. Sonitrol of Mobile, Inc.	892 So. 2d 354	94
2004	Howard v. City of Atmore	887 So. 2d 201	84
2009	White Sands Group, L.L.C. v. Prs II, L.L.C.	32 So. 3d 5	83
2004	Ex Parte McNabb	887 So. 2d 998	75
2003	Baldwin County v. Bay Minette	854 So. 2d 42	66
2005	Ex Parte City of Tuskegee· Dissent†	932 So. 2d 895	65
2002	Denmark v. Mercantile Stores Co., Inc.	844 So. 2d 1189	64
2003	Ex Parte Dill, Dill, Carr, Stonbraker & Hutchings, PC	866 So. 2d 519	61

Showing the 15 most-cited of 481 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 Woodall on?: Tom Woodall 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).