Posted on 08/12/2005 5:01:00 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
Lyn Stuart seeking re-election as associate justice Friday, August 12, 2005 By BILL BARROW Capital Bureau MONTGOMERY -- Republican Lyn Stuart has announced that she will seek a second term as associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
The Atmore native and former Baldwin County judge becomes the second member of the high court to announce another run in 2006 after having opposed former Chief Justice Roy Moore's efforts to keep a Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Judicial Building. Champ Lyons of Magnolia Springs announced his intentions to run for another term earlier this spring.
Former Justice Jean Brown was the first member of the court to face re-election after having joined her fellow associate justices in a unanimous vote in 2003 to remove the monument, as ordered by a federal judge. Tom Parker, a former Moore aide, defeated Brown in the 2004 GOP primary.
Stuart did not mention Moore or the Ten Commandments in a prepared campaign announcement released this week. Rather, she focused on her "record of experience and my conservative judicial philosophy."
Stuart, 49, has no announced opposition. Party primaries are scheduled for next June, with the general election to follow in November.
Stuart began her legal career as an Alabama assistant attorney general and an assistant district attorney for Baldwin County. She was elected District Court judge in 1988 and 1994, before then-Gov. Fob James promoted her to the Circuit Court bench in 1997. One year later, she won election to the Circuit Court judgeship.
She was elected to the nine-member Supreme Court in 2000. Stuart's election came amid an ideological and partisan shift that moved the court from a plaintiffs-lawyer-friendly, all-Democratic panel in 1994 to a business-friendly, all-Republican panel as of last year's general election.
"My judicial service is influenced by a conservative legal philosophy," said Stuart. "I believe our criminal justice system must serve and protect the victims and children who look to the courts to uphold the rule of law in an often lawless society.
"I believe our civil justice system must be balanced and fair, while always recognizing the limits of judicial authority."
Associate justices are elected statewide to serve six-year terms. Their salary ranges from $152,027 to $190,034 annually, depending on their years of service.
Stuart is a graduate of Escambia County High School, Auburn University and the University of Alabama School of Law. She is married to George Stuart. The couple resides in Bay Minette and has three children.
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I vote to put her and her cohort in crime out on the street looking in. Let them screw up something more trivial. I hope the voters of Alabama pay more attention this time and elect a slate of true originalists to the State Supreme Court.
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