Jean Brown (Alabama judge)
Jean Williams Brown was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1999 to 2005.
Brown was born around 1952 and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She earned her bachelor's degree from Samford University and a J.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Law. Her legal career has included working as an Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery, Alabama and serving as a Judge of the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. In 1999, Brown was elected as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. She was defeated for reelection in a 2005 campaign directed in part at her participation in a ruling requiring the removal of a statue of the Ten Commandments from state property. In 2019, Brown was appointed as a commissioner for the Alabama Department of Senior Services.
