Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals (Place 5)

Matt Fridy has served on the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals since January 2021 after winning election in November 2020¹². He was a Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives for District 73 from 2014 to 2020 and practiced appellate and business litigation at a Birmingham firm¹². He is the Republican nominee for Place 5 and is unopposed on the November 3, 2026 ballot³.

• Judge, Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, since January 2021¹²
• Member, Alabama House of Representatives, District 73, 2014 to 2020; chaired the Committee on the Constitution, Campaigns and Elections¹²
• Attorney at a Birmingham law firm with a practice in appellate litigation, constitutional law, campaign finance, business litigation and agricultural law; former staff attorney at the Court of Civil Appeals and the Supreme Court of Alabama; law clerk to U.S. District Judge Edwin Nelson¹
• University of Montevallo; J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 2001 (magna cum laude)¹²
• Elected to the Court of Civil Appeals in the November 2020 general election and took office January 18, 2021; he resigned his House seat on his election¹².