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December 27, 1982. The Jefferson County Courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama is the main county courthouse of Jefferson County, Alabama. It is the county's sixth main courthouse building, and the third in Birmingham. The cornerstone was laid in 1929, and the building was completed in 1932. The prior courthouse was demolished in 1937.
The Alabama Circuit Courts are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the State of Alabama.The Circuit Courts have jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases. For civil cases, the courts has authority to try cases with an amount in controversy of more than $3,000 and has exclusive original jurisdiction over claims for more than $10,000. [1]
Jefferson County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama, located in the central portion of the state. As of the 2020 census , its population was 674,721. [ 3 ] Its county seat is Birmingham . [ 1 ]
This is a list of county courthouses in Alabama. Each of Alabama 's 67 counties has a courthouse in the county seat. Barbour, Coffee, Jefferson, Marshall and St. Clair counties have two courthouses each. Part of the Daniel Pratt Historic District (NRHP). [1] Part of the Seth Lore and Irwinton Historic District (NRHP).
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (in case citations, N.D. Ala.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit). The District was established on March 10, 1824, with the division of ...
Bolin was a practicing attorney in Birmingham from 1973 through 1988, when he was elected as Probate Judge of Jefferson County. He was re-elected to that position in 1994 and 2000. He served in that position until his election to the Alabama Supreme Court in 2004, and began serving as an associate justice beginning January 14, 2005. [6]
Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3] According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2).
Carole Smitherman. Carole Catlin Smitherman (born 1952) is an American politician and jurist, serving as a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. Smitherman served in 2009 as the 31st Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and spent several years as a member of the City Council before resigning to assume her current judicial position.