{"id":1739,"date":"2012-07-27T10:35:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:49:31","slug":"maddox-alva-hugh-1930","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"MADDOX, ALVA HUGH, 1930-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney, judge. Born&#8211; April 17, 1930, Covington County. Parents&#8211; Christopher Columbus and Audie L. (Freeman) Maddox. Married&#8211; Virginia Roberts, June 14, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., University of Alabama, 1952; LL.B., 1957. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1957.\u00a0 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\u00a0Brewer, 1968. Appointed\u00a0associate justice on the Supreme Court of Alabama, 1969; served until his retirement as senior associate justice in 2001.\u00a0 Wrote 1650 majority opinions during his 31 years on the court.\u00a0 Member American and Alabama Bar Associations; YMCA, Kiwanis.\u00a0Member and leader of the American Inns of Court Foundation, a legal mentoring organization;\u00a0 awarded its A. Sherman Christensen Award in 2008. Awarded Judicial Award of Merit, Alabama Bar Association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Government, 1972.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Rules of Criminal Procedure.\u00a0 5 editions: 1990, 1994 (Michie Company),1999,2004,2011 (lexis-Nexis).<\/p>\n<p>Billy Boll Weevil; a Pest Becomes a Hero. Huntsville, Ala.; Strode, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama Appellate Courts, 4th. ed. Montgomery, Ala.; Alabama Supreme Court Library, 1975.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney, judge. Born&#8211; April 17, 1930, Covington County. Parents&#8211; Christopher Columbus and Audie L. (Freeman) Maddox. Married&#8211; Virginia Roberts, June 14, 1958. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; A.B., University of Alabama, 1952; LL.B., 1957. Admitted to the Alabama Bar, 1957.\u00a0 Employed as a journalist, Florala News, 1947; law clerk, Alabama Court of Appeals, 1957; field examiner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8869,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/8869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}