Mobile County Circuit Judge Sarah Stewart is seen in her courtroom on April 16, 2015, in Mobile, Alabama. Stewart, a current associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court, and Bryan Taylor, a former state senator and legal adviser to two governors, are competing for the Republican nomination to replace retiring Chief Justice Tom Parker. (Sharon Steinmann/AL.com via AP)
The Alabama chief justice serves on the state’s highest court, and also serves as the administrative head of the state court system.
Stewart was elected to the Supreme Court in 2018 after serving 13 years as a circuit court judge in Mobile.
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She was part of a Supreme Court majority that issued the ruling in a pair of wrongful death cases brought by three couples who had frozen embryos destroyed in an accident at a fertility clinic.
The justices ruled that the couples could purse lawsuits for the wrongful death of a child. Stewart signed on to a concurring opinion written by Associate Justice Greg Shaw that the wrongful death law covers "an unborn child with no distinction between in vitro or in utero."
Taylor is a former military prosecutor, state senator, Iraq War veteran and had served as chief legal advisor to Gov. Kay Ivey and an adviser and policy director for Gov. Bob Riley. During his time in the Alabama Legislature, he was best known for authoring the revamp of the state’s ethics law that was later used to prosecute former House Speaker Mike Hubbard.
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