Joel Bascom Brown (May 18, 1872 – April 13, 1953)[1] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1920 to 1921, and again from 1927 to 1953.
Born near Somerville, Alabama,[2][3] Brown "attended the common schools" of his county,[4] and graduated from Hartselle College in 1889.
[4][5] In 1914, he ran for a seat on the state court of appeals,[4] to which he was elected, being sworn into office in November of that year.
[6][7] In 1919, he was elected to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice James J.
[7] She died in 1939, and in 1941, he married Rebecca Knight Odum, daughter of associate justice Thomas E.