From 1960 to 1988, He had a private law practice in Tallassee, Alabama.
[1] He served as president of the Elmore County Bar Association, president of the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, and as Tallassee, Alabama City Judge from 1972 to 1978.
He served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1989 to 1995.
[2] He was narrowly defeated for re-election in 1994 by Perry O. Hooper Sr., who became Alabama's third Republican chief justice and the first GOP member to hold the post in 120 years when Thomas Minott Peters (1872–1874) left office during Reconstruction.
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