Glenn Murdock, Associate Justice
2007 - Present
Court of Civil Appeals, 2001 - 2007
Glenn Murdock was born in Enterprise, Alabama, on June 25, 1956. He is the
oldest of three children of Billy A. Murdock and the late Marita Huey Murdock.
After graduating from Enterprise High School in 1974, Justice Murdock attended
The University of Alabama, where he served as Student Government Vice President.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 1978, with a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Political Science and Economics. He received
his Juris Doctorate degree in 1981 from the University of Virginia Law School.
Upon returning to Alabama, Justice Murdock served for a year as a law clerk to
the late Clarence W. Allgood, United District Judge for the Northern District of
Alabama. Thereafter, he engaged in private practice, emphasizing commercial,
constitutional, and election law. He also served as in-house counsel to a
national corporation and as a State Administrative Law Judge. His practice
included cases before the state and federal courts of Alabama, as well as the
Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1994 and 1995, he served as an attorney to
The Honorable Perry O. Hooper, Sr., in the successful year-long federal court
litigation to establish the lawful winner of the 1994 Alabama Chief Justice
election.
In 2000, Justice Murdock was elected to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals,
where he served from January 2001 to January 2007. He was elected to the Alabama
Supreme Court in 2006 and began serving on that Court in January 2007.
Justice Murdock has been married for 28 years to the former Margaret Gilchrist
of Hartselle, Alabama. They have three children, Emily, Bailey, and John Taylor,
and they are active members of Covenant Presbyterian Church of Birmingham.
Justice Murdock is a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham
and the Birmingham and American Bar Associations.
