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Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justices
For more information about the Alabama Supreme Court, see the
Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Chief Justice
Term
Comments
Tom Parker
2019 -
Lyn Stewart
2017 - 2019
Roy S. Moore
2013 - 2017
Charles R. Malone
2011 - 2013
Sue Bell Cobb
2007 - 2011
Drayton Nabers Jr.
2004 - 2007
Governor Bob Riley appointed Nabers chief justice on June 22, 2004, to fill Roy Moore's unexpired term.
Roy S. Moore
2001 - 2003
Moore was removed from office on November 13, 2003, and Justice J. Gorman Houston became acting chief justice.
Perry O. Hooper Sr.
1995 - 2001
Ernest Clayton "Sonny" Hornsby
1989 - 1995
Clement Clay “Bo” Torbert Jr.
1977 - 1989
Howell T. Heflin
1971 - 1977
J. Ed Livingston
1951 - 1971
Lucien D. Gardner
1940 - 1951
John C. Anderson
1914 - 1940
James R. Dowdell
1909 - 1914
John R. Tyson
1906 - 1909
Thomas N. McClellan
1894 - 1906
George Washington Stone
1884 - 1894
Robert C. Brickell
1874 - 1884, 1894 - 1898
Thomas M. Peters
1873 - 1874
Elisha Wolsey Peck
1868 - 1873
A. J. Walker
1859 - 1868
Samuel F. Rice
1856 - 1859
George Goldthwaite
1856 - 1856
William P. Chilton
1852 - 1856
Edmund S. Dargan
1849 - 1852
Henry W. Collier
1837 - 1849
Arthur F. Hopkins
1837 - 1837
Henry Hitchcock
1836 - 1837
Reuben Saffold
1834 - 1836
Abner S. Lipscomb
1823 - 1834
Clement Comer Clay
1820 - 1823