Executive Director's Report

• Jurisdiction: Alabama,United States
• Citation: Vol. 72 No. 6 Pg. 0445
• Publication year: 2011
• Pages: 0445
• Year: 2011

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT
Vol. 72 No. 6 Pg. 445
The Alabama Lawyer
NOVEMBER, 2011

KEITH B. NORMAN
keith.norman@alabar.org

Thank You, Sue Bell Cobb

August 1, 2011 marked the conclusion of one of our state's most remarkable judicial careers-that of Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb. Upon her graduation from the University of Alabama School of Law and passing the bar exam, Sue Bell (in law school most people called her by her first and last name as a double name) began her judicial odyssey. Less than a month after her notification in September 1981 that she had passed the bar exam, Sue Bell was appointed by Governor Fob James as district court judge for Conecuh County. From the first time she donned her judicial robe, she never looked back.

I say Sue Bell's was a remarkable judicial career because from her appointment as district judge, she was later elected to that position, then elected circuit judge for the 35^th Judicial Circuit, then elected to the court of criminal appeals and finally chief justice-our state's first female chief justice. Over the course of her 30 years of judicial service, she was elected to the district and circuit courts, an intermediate appellate court and finally to the supreme court. I am not aware of...