The idea for an Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame in various forms had been explored for several years. In 2000, Terry Brown of Montgomery wrote Sam Rumore, then Alabama State Bar president, with a suggestion to convert the old supreme court building into a museum honoring the great lawyers of Alabama. Although the concept of a lawyers’ hall of fame was studied, the next bar president, Fred Gray, appointed a task force to implement a hall of fame. The Alabama Lawyers’ Hall of Fame is the culmination of that idea and many meetings.

2010:

Edgar Thomas Albritton 1857 – 1925
Henry Hitchcock 1792 – 1839
James E. Horton 1878 – 1973
Lawrence Drew Redden 1922 – 2007
Harry Seale 1895 – 1989

2009:

Francis Hutcheson Hare Sr. 1904 – 1983
James G. Birney 1792 – 1857
Michael A. Figures 1947 – 1996
Clement C. Clay 1789 – 1866
Samuel W. Pipes, III 1916 – 1982

2008:

John B. Scott 1906 – 1978
Vernon Z. Crawford 1919 – 1985
Edward M. Friend, Jr. 1912 – 1995
Elisha Wolsey Peck 1799 – 1888

2007:

John Archibald Campbell 1811 – 1889
Howell T. Heflin 1921 – 2005
Thomas Goode Jones 1844 – 1914
Patrick W. Richardson 1925 – 2004

2006:

William Rufus King (1776 – 1853)
Thomas Minott Peters (1810 – 1888)
John J. Sparkman (1899 – 1985)
Honorable Robert S. Vance (1931 – 1989)

2005:

Oscar W. Adams (1925 – 1997)
William Douglas Arant (1897 – 1987)
Hugo L. Black (1886 – 1971)
Harry Toulmin (1766 – 1823)

2004:

Dean Albert John Farrah (1863– 1944)
Frank M. Johnson, Jr. (1918– 1999)
Annie Lola Price (1903– 1972)
Arthur Davis Shores (1904– 1996)

To download a printable/mailable nomination form for 2012, click here.