Who is running for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Place 8 in 2026?

Juvenile court referee, Jefferson County; attorney, Magic City Fertility Law

AshLeigh Meyer Dunham is a Birmingham area attorney who serves as a referee in Jefferson County's juvenile court and owns a law practice focused on assisted reproduction and family law²³. A Huntsville native⁴, she earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama in 2007 and her law degree from Samford University's Cumberland School of Law in 2010¹. She is the Democratic nominee for Supreme Court Place 8 against Republican incumbent Greg Shaw⁵⁶.

• Senior trial referee, Jefferson County Juvenile Court, Bessemer Division; also identified as a Jefferson County attorney²³
• Owner, Magic City Fertility Law, a practice focused on assisted reproduction and family law²⁴
• Author of an Alabama Lawyer article on Alabama assisted reproduction law (2020); co-director of the Alabama State Bar's annual family law conference; former Family Law Section board member²
• B.A., University of Alabama, 2007; J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 2010¹
• Not a sitting judge. She announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination in June 2025³ and is on the November 3, 2026 ballot as the Democratic nominee for Place 8⁵.

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama (Place 8)

Greg Shaw has been an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama since January 2009 and was reelected in 2014 and 2020¹². He served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals from 2001 to 2009 and spent more than 15 years as a senior staff attorney at the Supreme Court before that¹. He is the Republican nominee for Place 8 against Democrat AshLeigh Meyer Dunham³.

• Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama, since January 20, 2009¹²
• Judge, Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, elected 2000 and reelected 2006; also Chief Judge of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary from March 2007 to January 2009¹
• Senior staff attorney to Justice James Gorman Houston Jr. for more than 15 years; earlier staff attorney to Justice Janie L. Shores; private practice in St. Clair County and Birmingham¹
• B.S., Auburn University, 1979; J.D., Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, 1982; LL.M. in the Judicial Process, University of Virginia School of Law, 2004¹
• First elected to the Supreme Court in November 2008 and took office January 20, 2009; reelected in 2014 (unopposed) and 2020¹².