Virgil Bouldin

Virgil Bouldin (October 20, 1866 – July 30, 1949) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1923 to 1944. Educated in the public schools of Jackson County, Alabama, Bouldin received a B.A. from Winchester Normal College, in Winchester, Tennessee, and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee, in 1889, gaining admission to the bar that same year. Bouldin returned to Scottsboro to practice law, and represented Jackson County in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1896, He served on the Jackson County Democratic executive committee from 1890 to 1902, and on the state Democratic executive committee from 1907 to 1910, and from 1915 to 1916. He served as a private in the United States Army in the Spanish-American War, in the 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment.