Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justices

For more information about the Alabama Supreme Court, see the Encyclopedia of Alabama.

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