Alisa Kelli Wise (born December 14, 1962) is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the
Alabama Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six-year terms. The Supreme Court is hous ...
since 2011.
Education
Wise is a graduate of
Auburn University
Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a tota ...
and the
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
The Thomas Goode Jones School of Law (FaulknerLaw, Jones Law, JLS, or JSL) is the law school of Faulkner University, located in Montgomery, Alabama.
History
Jones School of Law was founded in 1928 by Montgomery County Circuit Judge Walter B. ...
at
Faulkner University
Faulkner University is a private Christian university in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. It is affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
History
The university was founded in 1942 by Rex Turner, Leonard Johnson and Joe Greer as "Montgomery B ...
in Montgomery, Alabama. She later earned a
Master of Public Administration
A Master of Public Administration (MPA) is a specialized professional graduate degree in public administration that prepares students for leadership roles, similar or equivalent to a Master of Business Administration but with an emphasis on the ...
from
Auburn University at Montgomery
Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) is a public university in Montgomery, Alabama, United States. Governed by the Auburn University Board of Trustees as a member of the Auburn University system, it was established by an act of the Alabama Le ...
.
Judicial career
She previously served on the
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals is one of two appellate courts in the Alabama judicial system. The court was established in 1969 when what had been one unitary state Court of Appeals was broken into a criminal appeals court and a civil app ...
, to which she was first elected in 2000. Upon taking office in 2001, she became the youngest woman to ever serve on an Alabama
appellate court
An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal. Appel ...
. Re-elected in 2006, she resigned from the appellate court upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court. She was first elected as a
Republican in 2010 to the Alabama Supreme Court,
and re-elected in 2016.
Personal life
She and her husband, retired District Judge Arthur Ray, have one daughter.
See also
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List of female state supreme court justices
Female state supreme court justices
First female justices
Below is a list of the names of the first woman to sit on the highest court of their respective states in the United States.
The first state with a female justice was Ohio; Florence ...
References
External links
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Biography at Vote Smart
1962 births
Living people
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
Alabama Republicans
American United Methodists
Auburn University alumni
People from Geneva County, Alabama
Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama
Thomas Goode Jones School of Law alumni
21st-century American women judges
20th-century American women
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