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Court

Ballotpedia:Trial Courts

The Marshall County District Court is a trial court of limited jurisdiction in Marshall County, Alabama.[1]

Judges

See also

External links


Alabama courts

Federal courts:

Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Northern District of Alabama, Middle District of Alabama, Southern District of Alabama • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Northern District of Alabama, Middle District of Alabama, Southern District of Alabama

State courts:

Alabama Supreme Court • Alabama Court of Civil Appeals • Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals • Alabama Circuit Courts • Alabama District Courts • Alabama Juvenile Courts • Alabama Municipal Courts • Alabama Probate Courts • Alabama Small Claims Courts

State resources:

Courts in Alabama • Alabama judicial elections • Judicial selection in Alabama

Elections

See also: Alabama judicial elections

Alabama is one of 43 states that hold elections for judicial positions. To learn more about judicial selection in Alabama, click here.

Selection method

See also: Partisan elections

There are 98 judgeships on the Alabama District Courts, each elected to six-year terms. The elections for this court are partisan contested elections. To serve on this court, a judge must have been licensed to practice law for three years.[3]

Election rules

Primary election

Candidates for judge or justice who wish to run on a party ticket must qualify to run in an open primary by obtaining the legally required number of signatures to get on the ballot.[4] Primary elections in years without a presidential primary are held on the first Tuesday in June.[5] Candidates can only qualify for one party. The winners from each party proceed to a general election in November.

If no candidate in a race wins more than 50 percent of the vote, a runoff determines who will advance to the general election. The top two vote recipients in the primary advance to the runoff. Primary runoffs are held six weeks after the primary election.[6][7]

If a candidate qualifies on a party ticket and is unopposed, their name is not placed on the primary ticket, but instead is placed automatically on the general election ballot.[8] Political parties can make rules restricting who participates in primaries, and residents can only vote in a single party's primary.[9]

General election

Alabama general elections are held on the first Tuesday in November of every even-numbered year. If a victory margin is within 0.5 percent, an automatic recount will take place unless the defeated candidate waives his or her right to the recount.[10]


Read more

  1. ↑ Alabama State Bar, "Court System Brochure," accessed May 4, 2014
  2. ↑ Alabama State Bar, "Judicial Official Search," accessed March 26, 2015 (Search "District Judge")
  3. ↑ American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: Alabama; Limited Jurisdiction Courts," archived October 2, 2014
  4. ↑ Fairvote.org, "Congressional and Presidential Primaries: Open, Closed, Semi-Closed, and 'Top Two,'" accessed April 29, 2014
  5. ↑ The Code of Alabama, "§17-13-3," accessed September 20, 2017
  6. ↑ Alabama Election Code, "§17-14-6," accessed April 28, 2014
  7. ↑ The Code of Alabama, "§17-13-3," accessed September 24, 2017
  8. ↑ Alabama Election Code, "§17-13-5(c)," accessed April 29, 2014
  9. ↑ Alabama Election Code, "§17-13-7," accessed April 29, 2014
  10. ↑ Alabama Election Code, "§17-16-20," accessed April 29, 2014
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