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# Will Parker

Supreme Court of Alabama · Associate Justice

## Profile

- Court: Supreme Court of Alabama
- State: Alabama
- Role: Associate Justice
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-08-22

## Summary

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

## 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://judicial.alabama.gov/Appellate/SupremeCourt)
- [Official roster](https://judicial.alabama.gov/Appellate/SupremeCourt)
- [Alabama Judicial System official judicial roster](https://judicial.alabama.gov/Appellate/SupremeCourt)
- [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)

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## Biography

### Professional career

- Following law school, he clerked for Judge Ed Carnes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- He also held the role of an assistant attorney general in the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, defending state officials in constitutional litigation for nearly a decade

### Education


### Additional information

- Parker earned his bachelor’s degree from Davidson College in 2002 and graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2006, where he was an honor graduate.
- Governor Ivey appointed Parker to the Alabama Supreme Court to replace Bill Lewis, who had been appointed to the court before moving to a federal judgeship.
- Sworn in by the governor and officially assumed his seat on the state’s high court, bringing extensive legal and governmental experience to the bench.