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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of Alabama / Joined 2017 / Active

William B. Sellers

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama

William B. Sellers is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Supreme Court of Alabama	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Sellers authored 59 published opinions for the court (2017–2018), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Blalock v. Sutphin (8 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. 70 of these were attributed to Sellers 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
2018	Blalock v. Sutphin†	275 So. 3d 519	8
2017	Clowers v. Ala. Dep't of Corr. (Ex parte Ala. Dep't of Corr.)†	252 So. 3d 635	8
2018	Campbell v. Kennedy†	275 So. 3d 507	5
2017	Hinote v. Owens· Dissent†	248 So. 3d 964	4
2018	STV One Nineteen Senior Living, LLC v. Boyd†	258 So. 3d 322	3
2017	Avnet v. Altapointe Health Sys., Inc. (Ex parte Altapointe Health Sys., Inc.)· Concurrence†	249 So. 3d 1108	3
2018	Curry v. Miller†	261 So. 3d 1175	2
2018	Spencer v. Spencer†	258 So. 3d 326	2
2017	Wood v. State†	261 So. 3d 322	2
2017	Easterling v. Progressive Specialty Ins. Co.· Dissent†	251 So. 3d 767	2
2017	McNamara v. Benchmark Ins. Co.†	261 So. 3d 213	2
2017	Daphne Auto., LLC v. E. Shore Neurology Clinic, Inc.†	245 So. 3d 599	2
2018	Burns v. Ashley· Dissent†	274 So. 3d 970	1
2018	Lane v. Main & Assocs., Inc.· Dissent†	270 So. 3d 270	1
2018	Suggs v. Gray†	265 So. 3d 226	1

Showing the 15 most-cited of 70 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 is William B. Sellers on?: William B. Sellers is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.

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9 years on the Supreme Court of Alabama. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).