Ala. Code § 12-11-2 (2026)
State Divided into Judicial Circuits; Enumeration of Circuits.
(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.)
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.)