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# A. David Johnson

Alabama Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit Court · Presiding Circuit Judge

## Profile

- Court: Alabama Twenty-Sixth Judicial Circuit Court
- State: Alabama
- Role: Presiding Circuit Judge
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-07-29

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- As circuit judge he administered the oath to newly elected Probate Judge Belinda Strickland in early 2025
- Circuit Judge, Alabama 26th Judicial Circuit (Russell County), elected November 2014 succeeding his father, Circuit Judge Albert L. Johnson, who left the circuit bench December 31, 2014
- District Judge, Russell County, Alabama
- Official Russell County court page lists A. David Johnson as Presiding Circuit Judge

### Education


### Additional information

- Elected in the 2010 Democratic primary (defeated L. Joel Collins) and unopposed in the general election.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### media recording photography broadcasting

Scope: statewide

Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 9.4 permits televising, photographing, or radio broadcasting of judicial proceedings only as provided by Alabama judicial ethics canons, law, or another court rule.

Evidence excerpt: The taking of television pictures or other photographs in or of the courtroom during the progress of judicial proceedings or the radio broadcasting of judicial proceedings may be permitted as provided in Canon 3(A)(7) and (7B), Canons of Judicial Ethics, promulgated by the Alabama Supreme Court, or as otherwise may be permitted by law or other rule of court.

[Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 9.4: Televising, photographing, or radio broadcasting of judicial proceedings](https://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/library/rules/cr9_4.pdf)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://russell.alacourt.gov/judges/)
- [Official roster](https://russell.alacourt.gov/judges/)
- [Alabama Administrative Office of Courts official judicial roster](https://russell.alacourt.gov/judges/)
- [Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 9.4: Televising, photographing, or radio broadcasting of judicial proceedings](https://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/library/rules/cr9_4.pdf)
- [Russell County Twenty-Sixth Circuit Court Judges](https://russell.alacourt.gov/judges/)
- [David Johnson (Alabama)](https://ballotpedia.org/David_Johnson_(Alabama))
- [Sunday Interview with Judge Albert Johnson](https://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article29354791.html)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Alabama Rule of Criminal Procedure 9.4: Televising, photographing, or radio broadcasting of judicial proceedings](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-2bb56569e2cd3665169eeff4) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim. Criminal proceedings only.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://judicial.alabama.gov/docs/library/rules/cr9_4.pdf). Collected 2026-07-26.