Samford University is a private Baptist university in Homewood,Alabama. It was founded in 1841 as Howard College by Baptists. In the fall of 2023,the university enrolled 5,791 students from 49 states,1 U.S. territory,and 16 other countries.
Cumberland School of Law is an ABA-accredited law school at Samford University in Homewood,Alabama,United States. It was founded in 1847 at Cumberland University in Lebanon,Tennessee and is the 11th oldest law school in the United States. The school has more than 11,000 graduates,and its alumni include two United States Supreme Court Justices,Nobel Peace Prize recipient Cordell Hull,"the father of the United Nations",over 50 U.S. representatives,and numerous senators,governors,and judges.
William Holcombe Pryor Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit since 2020. He was appointed as a United States circuit judge of the court by President George W. Bush in 2004. He is a former commissioner of the United States Sentencing Commission. Previously,he was the attorney general of Alabama,from 1997 to 2004.
Deborah Louise Cook is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit,based in Akron,Ohio. She served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1995 to 2003.
John Lawrence Carroll was an American judge and academic administrator who was a U.S. magistrate judge for the Middle District of Alabama from 1986 to 2001. He was also a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. He served as the dean of the Cumberland School of Law in Homewood,Alabama,from 2001 to 2014.
Joel Fredrick Dubina is an American attorney who is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Sharon Lovelace Blackburn is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
William Eugene Davis,known as W. Eugene Davis,is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His chambers are in New Orleans,Louisiana.
Kristi Kaye DuBose is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Claire Veronica Eagan is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and a former Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Effective February 12,2020,Chief Justice John G. Roberts appointed Judge Eagan as the chair of the Executive Committee of the Judicial Conference.
Edwin Levon Nelson was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Harold Barefoot Sanders Jr. was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was best known for overseeing the lawsuit to desegregate the Dallas Independent School District.
Madeline Clair Hughes Haikala is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Liles Clifton Burke is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. His official duty station is the United States Courthouse at Huntsville,Alabama. He previously was an Associate Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals.
Annemarie Axon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
Elizabeth Lee Branch is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She is a former judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Rebecca Christine Grady Jennings is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Andrew Lynn Brasher is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He is a former solicitor general of Alabama.
Joseph Harold Hunt is an American lawyer. He was the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the Department of Justice from September 2018 to July 2020.
Anna Marie Manasco is an American attorney from Alabama who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
