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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Alabama » Title 12 - Courts. » Chapter 11 - Circuit Courts. » Article 1 - General Provisions. » Section 12-11-2 – State Divided Into Judicial Circuits; Enumeration of Circuits.

Section 12-11-2

State divided into judicial circuits; enumeration of circuits.

The State of Alabama is divided into judicial circuits for the circuit courts, numbered and composed of counties as follows:

(1) First circuit – Choctaw, Clarke and Washington.

(2) Second circuit – Butler, Crenshaw and Lowndes.

(3) Third circuit – Barbour and Bullock.

(4) Fourth circuit – Bibb, Dallas, Hale, Perry and Wilcox.

(5) Fifth circuit – Chambers, Macon, Randolph and Tallapoosa.

(6) Sixth circuit – Tuscaloosa.

(7) Seventh circuit – Calhoun and Cleburne.

(8) Eighth circuit – Morgan.

(9) Ninth circuit – Cherokee and DeKalb.

(10) Tenth circuit – Jefferson.

(11) Eleventh circuit – Lauderdale.

(12) Twelfth circuit – Coffee and Pike.

(13) Thirteenth circuit – Mobile.

(14) Fourteenth circuit – Walker.

(15) Fifteenth circuit – Montgomery.

(16) Sixteenth circuit – Etowah.

(17) Seventeenth circuit – Marengo, Greene and Sumter.

(18) Eighteenth circuit – Shelby.

(19) Nineteenth circuit – Autauga, Chilton and Elmore.

(20) Twentieth circuit – Henry and Houston.

(21) Twenty-first circuit – Escambia.

(22) Twenty-second circuit – Covington.

(23) Twenty-third circuit – Madison.

(24) Twenty-fourth circuit – Fayette, Lamar and Pickens.

(25) Twenty-fifth circuit – Marion and Winston.

(26) Twenty-sixth circuit – Russell.

(27) Twenty-seventh circuit – Marshall.

(28) Twenty-eighth circuit – Baldwin.

(29) Twenty-ninth circuit – Talladega.

(30) Thirtieth circuit – St. Clair.

(31) Thirty-first circuit – Colbert.

(32) Thirty-second circuit – Cullman.

(33) Thirty-third circuit – Dale and Geneva.

(34) Thirty-fourth circuit – Franklin.

(35) Thirty-fifth circuit – Conecuh and Monroe.

(36) Thirty-sixth circuit – Lawrence.

(37) Thirty-seventh circuit – Lee.

(38) Thirty-eighth circuit – Jackson.

(39) Thirty-ninth circuit – Limestone.

(40) Fortieth circuit – Clay and Coosa.

(41) Forty-first circuit – Blount.

(Acts 1973, No. 1020, p. 1556, §1; Acts 1978, No. 377, p. 332; Acts 1989, No. 89-955, p. 1883, §1; Acts 1990, No. 90-294, p. 402, §1; Act 2000-765, p. 1752, §1.)