MADDOX, ALVA HUGH, 1930-

Biography:

Attorney, judge. Born– April 17, 1930, Covington County. Parents– Christopher Columbus and Audie L. (Freeman) Maddox. Married– Virginia Roberts, June 14, 1958. Children– Two. Education– A.B., University of Alabama, 1952; LL.B., 1957. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1957.  Employed as a journalist, Florala News, 1947; law clerk, Alabama Court of Appeals, 1957; field examiner, Veterans Administration, 1958; law clerk, U.S. District Court, 1959; attorney, Montgomery, 1959-1961; circuit judge, 15th Judicial Circuit, 1961-63; legal adviser to Governor George Wallace, 1965; Governor Lurleen Wallace, 1967; Governor Albert Brewer, 1968. Appointed associate justice on the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1969; served until his retirement as senior associate justice in 2001.  Wrote 1650 majority opinions during his 31 years on the court.  Member American and Alabama Bar Associations; YMCA, Kiwanis. Member and leader of the American Inns of Court Foundation, a legal mentoring organization;  awarded its A. Sherman Christensen Award in 2008. Awarded Judicial Award of Merit, Alabama Bar Association.

Source:

Who’s Who in Government, 1972.

Publication(s):

Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure.  5 editions: 1990, 1994 (Michie Company),1999,2004,2011 (lexis-Nexis).

Billy Boll Weevil; a Pest Becomes a Hero. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1976.

Joint_Editor:

Alabama Appellate Courts, 4th. ed. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Supreme Court Library, 1975.