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 1989 / Served to 2001

William E. Robertson

Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals

William E. Robertson was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, who joined the court in 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1939–2012
Tenure: 1989–2001 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Alabama Court of Civil Appeals	–	–

Education

Livingstone College
Samford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Robertson authored 1,004 published opinions for the court (1989–2001), plus 80 dissents and 63 concurrences. Most cited: Wallace v. TEE JAYS MFG. CO., INC. (194 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. 753 of these were attributed to Robertson 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
1997	Wallace v. TEE JAYS MFG. CO., INC.	689 So. 2d 210	194
1994	Martin v. Martin	637 So. 2d 901	132
1994	Stack v. Stack	646 So. 2d 51	113
1994	Whitsett v. BAMSI, Inc.	652 So. 2d 287	107
1995	Albertson v. Albertson· Dissent†	678 So. 2d 118	88
1990	Vainrib v. Downey· Dissent†	565 So. 2d 647	76
1994	Thompson v. Thompson· Dissent†	650 So. 2d 928	64
1990	Dees v. State	563 So. 2d 1059	61
1997	Berryhill v. Reeves	705 So. 2d 505	54
1995	Dyas v. Dyas	683 So. 2d 971	52
1989	Hammons v. Roses Stores, Inc.	547 So. 2d 883	52
1994	M.H.S. v. State Dept. of Human Resources	636 So. 2d 419	51
1994	Graham v. Graham	640 So. 2d 963	50
1998	Singleton v. Graham	716 So. 2d 224	48
1995	Shoals Community College v. Colagross	674 So. 2d 1311	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,148 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 William E. Robertson on?: William E. Robertson was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Sources

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12 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).