The first of three African Americans to serve on the court was former Justice Oscar W. Adams, Jr., who in 1980 was initially appointed by then Governor Fob James to serve the remainder of an unexpired term.
Drayton Nabers (born December 2, 1940) is a former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
On October 26, 1987, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled she was entitled to her half-share in the Williams estate, as she had been the victim of fraud and judicial error.
The station made national headlines in November 1992 when the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled in Howard v. Wolff Broadcasting Corp. that Alabama state law permits employers to fire people solely because of their gender.
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Beverly Howard (lawyer), plaintiff in the case of Glassroth v. Moore, where she sued Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore over a monument of the Ten Commandments
Bob Vance (jurist), American jurist who ran for Alabama Supreme Court against Roy Moore in 2012
Richard Wilde Walker, Jr., an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
Richard Wilde Walker, an Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
Wesleyan also houses personal effects and mementoes of former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice and U.S. Senator Howell Heflin, a native of nearby Tuscumbia.