Roy Moore
| Roy Moore | |
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| Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court | |
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Assumed office January 15, 2013 Suspended since May 6, 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Chuck Malone |
| Succeeded by | Lyn Stuart (Acting) |
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In office January 15, 2001 – November 13, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Perry Hooper |
| Succeeded by | Gorman Houston |
| Circuit Judge of the Sixteenth Alabama Circuit | |
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In office 1992–2000 |
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| Appointed by | H. Guy Hunt |
| Succeeded by | William Millican |
| Preceded by | Julius Swann |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Roy Stewart Moore February 11, 1947 Gadsden, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Kayla Kisor |
| Children | 4 (1 adopted) |
| Alma mater |
United States Military Academy (BS) University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (JD) |
| Website | Official website |
Roy Stewart Moore (born February 11, 1947) is an American judge and Republican politician. Moore was elected to the position of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2001, but removed from his position on November 13, 2003 by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for refusing to remove a monument of the Ten Commandments commissioned by him from the Alabama Judicial Building despite orders to do so by a federal court. Moore was again elected to be Chief Justice in 2013, but was suspended in May 2016 for directing probate judges to continue to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage despite the fact that it had been overturned. On September 30, 2016, the Alabama Court of the Judiciary finalized its decision and suspended Moore without pay for the rest of his term running through January 2019.
In the years preceding his first election to the state Supreme Court, Moore successfully resisted attempts to have a display of the Ten Commandments removed from the courtroom. The controversy around Moore generated national attention. Moore's supporters regard his stand as a defense of "judicial rights" and the Constitution of Alabama. Moore contended that federal judges who ruled against his actions consider "obedience of a court order superior to all other concerns, even the suppression of belief in the sovereignty of God."
Moore sought the Republican nomination for the governorship of Alabama in 2006, but lost to incumbent Bob Riley in the June primary by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. On June 1, 2009 he announced his campaign for the 2010 election for governor. Moore placed fourth in the Republican primary held on June 1, 2010, having received only 19 percent of the vote.
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