UA Law Grad Will Parker Sworn In As Associate Justice

2006 University of Alabama Law School Honor Graduate Will Parker has been appointed to an Associate Justice position on the Alabama Supreme Court by Gov. Kay Ivey. The magna cum laude law school grad was sworn in by Ivey this morning in the Governor's Office and officially takes his seat on the state's high court today.

Justice Parker is a longtime legal advisor to Governor Ivey and comes to the bench after a successful tenure as General Counsel to the governor. He fills the vacancy left by Bill Lewis. Governor Ivey previously appointed Lewis to the Alabama Supreme Court before President Donald Trump selected him for a federal judgeship.

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The new justice received his undergraduate degree Davidson College in North Caolina in 2002. Following law school, he clerked for Judge Ed Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before joining the Ivey Administration, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, where for almost ten years he defended state officials in constitutional litigation in state and federal courts.

“Will Parker is the exact kind of person you want serving on the Alabama Supreme Court. He is not only highly capable and dedicated to the rule of law, but he is a truly good man with the utmost integrity,” Governor Ivey was quoted as saying in a press release from her office. “He has been an outstanding General Counsel, easily explaining the complexities of the law and constitution in understandable verbiage. That will no doubt serve the Court well. While I will miss having him as General Counsel, I am thrilled for the people of Alabama, as well as for Will and his family, as he takes on this new role.”

Justice Parker expressed gratitude to his longtime boss, “I am grateful to Governor Ivey for the opportunity to serve the people of Alabama in this new role, and I will do everything I can as a member of the Alabama Supreme Court to live up to the high standards set by her and embodied by all of Team Ivey,”

The new justice was joined by his wife, Karen, and their two school-aged sons, as well as his parents as he took the oath of office.