The Supreme Court is housed in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.

However, the state constitution under Amendment 328, adopted in 1973, prohibits any member from seeking election once they reach age 70.

The Clerk of Court is Margaret "Megan" Byrne Rhodebeck, who assumed the office by appointment on August 1, 2022.

These judges met in May 1820 in the capital city of Cahaba for the first term of the Supreme Court.

[4] By this time the court had its own chambers in the newly completed Alabama State Capitol.

[4] The new state constitution of 1868, drafted during the Reconstruction Era, committed the election of the three justices to the people rather than the legislature.

The building had been built as a Scottish Rite temple in 1926 but was sold to the state during the financially difficult years of the Great Depression.

It further has the authority to issue any necessary orders to carry out the general superintendence of the Unified Judicial System of Alabama.

The Alabama Supreme Court has had an unusually high turnover in the chief justice position, going back to October 1995.

He was succeeded by Roy Moore, who was elected in 2000 but removed from office due to violations of the judicial canon of ethics.

Her replacement, Chuck Malone was appointed on August 1, 2011, by Governor Robert Bentley but was defeated for re-nomination by former Chief Justice Roy Moore in 2012.

[14] The current director, Rich Hobson, was appointed by Chief Justice Tom Parker to the position in January, 2019.

The current marshal of the Alabama Appellate Courts is Earl Marsh, who was appointed in 2020.

[17][19][20] The court's ruling has led three major Alabama medical providers to discontinue in-vitro fertilisation treatment because of legal uncertainty created by the decision.