Tom Parker

Tom Parker (born August 19, 1951) is an American lawyer and judge. He is the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court winning election in November 2018. He previously served as an associate justice on the court having been elected to that position in 2004 and re-elected in 2010. Education Parker graduated from Dartmouth College and Vanderbilt University Law School. He studied at the Law School, University of São Paulo in Brazil as a Rotary International fellow. Career In 1989, Parker became the founding executive director of the Alabama Family Alliance (later renamed the Alabama Policy Institute), a conservative think tank. At other points in his career, Parker was an Alabama assistant attorney general, deputy administrative director of Alabama courts; general counsel for Alabama trial courts; and director of the Alabama Judicial College. Parker defeated Robert H. Smith to become an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court in 2004 and was sworn in on January 14, 2005.