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Brad Mendheim
2018 - Present
2027
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Brad Mendheim (Republican Party) is a judge of the Alabama Supreme Court. He assumed office on December 28, 2018. His current term ends on January 18, 2027.
Mendheim (Republican Party) ran for re-election for judge of the Alabama Supreme Court. He won in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Mendheim first became a member of the Alabama Supreme Court through appointment. Gov. Kay Ivey (R) appointed him in January 2018 to replace former Justice Glenn Murdock, who retired.[1] To learn more about this appointment, click here.
Mendheim was defeated in the primary runoff election on July 17, 2018, after advancing from the primary on June 5. On December 28, 2018, Ivey appointed Mendheim to a vacancy created by Tom Parker's elevation to chief justice.[2]
Mendheim was formerly a 20th Judicial Circuit judge in Alabama.[3]
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country. As part of this study, we assigned each justice a Confidence Score describing our confidence in the degree of partisanship exhibited by the justices' past partisan behavior, before they joined the court.[4] Mendheim received a confidence score of Strong Republican.[5] Click here to read more about this study.
Biography
Mendheim earned his B.A. from Auburn University. He received a J.D. from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in 1993. Mendheim worked in a general practice firm and as an assistant district attorney for the 20th Judicial Circuit before becoming a judge.[6]
He was a district judge in Houston County from 2001 to 2009. Mendheim was elected to Alabama's 20th Judicial Circuit in 2008 and served there until Ivey appointed him to the state supreme court in January 2018. He lost in the primary runoff in July, and in December 2018, Ivey appointed him to another vacancy. Mendheim won election to a full term in 2020.[6]
Elections
2020
See also: Alabama Supreme Court elections, 2020
General election
General election for Alabama Supreme Court
Incumbent Brad Mendheim won election in the general election for Alabama Supreme Court on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad Mendheim (R) | 97.6 | 1,547,036 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 2.4 | 37,399 | ||
| Total votes: 1,584,435 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Brad Mendheim advanced from the Republican primary for Alabama Supreme Court.
2018
See also: Alabama Supreme Court elections, 2018
General election
General election for Alabama Supreme Court
Sarah Stewart won election in the general election for Alabama Supreme Court on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Sarah Stewart (R) | 96.8 | 1,098,344 |
| Other/Write-in votes | 3.2 | 36,256 | ||
| Total votes: 1,134,600 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for Alabama Supreme Court
Sarah Stewart defeated incumbent Brad Mendheim in the Republican primary runoff for Alabama Supreme Court on July 17, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Sarah Stewart | 56.7 | 179,962 |
| Brad Mendheim | 43.3 | 137,621 | |
| Total votes: 317,583 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Alabama Supreme Court
Incumbent Brad Mendheim and Sarah Stewart advanced to a runoff. They defeated Debra H. Jones in the Republican primary for Alabama Supreme Court on June 5, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Mendheim | 43.4 | 203,369 |
| ✔ | | Sarah Stewart | 29.3 | 137,321 |
 | Debra H. Jones | 27.3 | 127,861 | |
| Total votes: 468,551 | |||
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2014
- See also: Alabama judicial elections, 2014
Mendheim ran for re-election to Judicial Circuit 20.
General: He was unopposed in the general election on November 4, 2014.[7]
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Brad Mendheim did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Analysis
Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship (2020)
Last updated: June 15, 2020
In 2020, Ballotpedia published Ballotpedia Courts: State Partisanship, a study examining the partisan affiliation of all state supreme court justices in the country as of June 15, 2020.
The study presented Confidence Scores that represented our confidence in each justice's degree of partisan affiliation. This was not a measure of where a justice fell on an ideological spectrum, but rather a measure of how much confidence we had that a justice was or had been affiliated with a political party. The scores were based on seven factors, including but not limited to party registration.[8]
The five resulting categories of Confidence Scores were:
- Strong Democrat
- Mild Democrat
- Indeterminate[9]
- Mild Republican
- Strong Republican
This justice's Confidence Score, as well as the factors contributing to that score, is presented below. The information below was current as of June 2020.
Brad
Mendheim
Alabama
- Partisan Confidence Score:
Strong Republican - Judicial Selection Method:
Elected - Key Factors:
- Was a registered Republican as of 2020
- Donated over $2000 to Republican candidates
- Appointed by a Republican governor
Partisan Profile
Details:
Mendheim was a registered Republican when he was appointed to the court. He donated $8,000 to Republican individuals and organizations. Mendheim was appointed by Gov. Kay Ivey (R) to fill a vacancy on the court. At the time of his appointment, Alabama was a Republican trifecta. He was the top recipient of funding from Geddie and Associates PAC, an organization that regularly supports Republican candidates.
State supreme court judicial selection in Alabama
- See also: Judicial selection in Alabama
The nine justices on the Alabama Supreme Court are selected through partisan elections for six-year terms. They appear on partisan election ballots statewide and face re-election if they wish to serve again.[10] For more information about these elections, visit the Alabama judicial elections page.
Qualifications
To serve on this court, a judge must be:
- licensed to practice law for at least 10 years;
- a state resident for at least one year;
- under the age of 70 at the time of election (judges who turn 70 in office may serve until their terms expire).[11][12]
Chief justice
The chief justice of the court is selected by popular vote, serving in that office for his or her full six-year term.[10][13]
Vacancies
Should a vacancy occur between regularly scheduled elections, which take place in November of even-numbered years, an interim justice is appointed by the governor. Any justice appointed in this fashion must then stand for election in the next general election occurring at least one year after taking office.[10][14]
The map below highlights how vacancies are filled in state supreme courts across the country.
See also
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Dothan Eagle, "Brad Mendheim sworn in as newest Alabama Supreme Court Justice," January 22, 2018
- ↑ Alabama Political Reporter, "Brad Mendheim appointed to Alabama Supreme Court a second time," December 31, 2018
- ↑ Dothan Eagle, "Two longtime Houston County judges set to retire soon," January 23, 2010
- ↑ We calculated confidence scores by collecting several data points such as party registration, donations, and previous political campaigns.
- ↑ The five possible confidence scores were: Strong Democrat, Mild Democrat, Indeterminate, Mild Republican, and Strong Republican.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Alabama Judicial System, "Associate Justice Mendheim," accessed June 9, 2021
- ↑ Alabama Secretary of State, "2014 Election Information," accessed June 9, 2021
- ↑ The seven factors were party registration, donations made to partisan candidates, donations made to political parties, donations received from political parties or bodies with clear political affiliation, participation in political campaigns, the partisanship of the body responsible for appointing the justice, and state trifecta status when the justice joined the court.
- ↑ An Indeterminate score indicates that there is either not enough information about the justice’s partisan affiliations or that our research found conflicting partisan affiliations.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Alabama Judicial System, "Qualification of Judges," accessed March 23, 2023
- ↑ Judicial Retirement Laws, "Alabama: Mandatory Retirement Provisions Applicable Generally," accessed August 10, 2021
- ↑ Alabama Secretary of State, "Minimum Qualifications for Public Office," accessed March 23, 2023
- ↑ Justia, "Article VI, Alabama Constitution - Section 152," accessed March 23, 2023
- ↑ Brennan Center for Justice, "Judicial Selection: An Interactive Map," accessed March 23, 2023
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