Champ Lyons Jr. (born December 6, 1940, in Boston, Massachusetts) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1998 to 2011.
[1] Champ Lyons, Jr was born to the late Dr.
Lyons served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Daniel H. Thomas.
He later did private practice in Montgomery, additionally serving as editor of the Young Lawyers' Newsletter.
Justice Lyons practiced law in the city of Mobile from 1976 to January 1998, at which time he became Legal Advisor to Governor Fob James, Jr. On March 23, 1998, he was appointed to serve as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.