Terri Willingham Thomas (born October 13, 1964) was a Judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals from 2007–2019.
She was the first woman to serve as a district court judge in Cullman County.
In addition to acting as a District and Juvenile Court Judge, she served as President of the Alabama Juvenile and Family Courts Judges Association from 2004–2005, and on the Faculty of the Alabama Judicial College.
[2] An issue that arose during her 2006 campaign for a seat in the Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals was her family ties to the Ku Klux Klan, a connection which Thomas had repeatedly denied.
[4] During her time on the bench Thomas has called for Alabama to abandon the practice of common-law marriage.