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 1923 / Served to 1944

Virgil Bouldin

Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

Virgil Bouldin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, who joined the court in 1923. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1866–1949
Tenure: 1923–1944 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1923	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Bouldin authored 1,500 published opinions for the court (1923–1945), plus 29 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: Chandler v. Whatley (89 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. 14 of these were attributed to Bouldin 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	Chandler v. Whatley	189 So. 751	89
1934	Boyle v. State	154 So. 575	87
1926	Godfrey v. Vinson	110 So. 13	85
1929	Epps v. Epps	120 So. 150	80
1933	Ex Parte Thompson· Separate	152 So. 229	79
1938	Pow v. Southern Const. Co.	180 So. 288	68
1932	Duke v. Gaines	140 So. 600	68
1927	American Ry. Express Co. v. Reid	113 So. 507	67
1928	Cartwright v. Braly	117 So. 477	66
1932	Yarbrough v. Mallory	144 So. 447	65
1923	Sandlin v. Anders	98 So. 299	65
1934	Jackson v. State	155 So. 581	64
1923	Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co.	98 So. 290	62
1926	Williams v. Bedenbaugh	110 So. 286	61
1934	Oxford v. Estes	158 So. 534	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,563 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 Virgil Bouldin on?: Virgil Bouldin was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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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).