Virgil Bouldin

Virgil Bouldin (October 20, 1866 – July 30, 1949)^[1][2] was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1923 to 1944.

Educated in the public schools of Jackson County, Alabama, Bouldin received a B.A. from Winchester Normal College, in Winchester, Tennessee,^[2][3] and graduated from Cumberland School of Law in Lebanon, Tennessee,^[2] in 1889, gaining admission to the bar that same year.^[3]

Bouldin returned to Scottsboro to practice law,^[1] and represented Jackson County in the Alabama House of Representatives in 1896,^[1][3] He served on the Jackson County Democratic executive committee from 1890 to 1902, and on the state Democratic executive committee from 1907 to 1910, and from 1915 to 1916.^[1]

He served as a private in the United States Army in the Spanish-American War, in the 2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment.^[1][3]

He then returned to Jackson County "to devote himself to his law practice and his banking and lumber interests".^[3][4]

On September 25, 1923, Governor William W. Brandon appointed Bouldin to a seat on the state supreme court vacated by the resignation of Justice Thomas C. McClellan, effective October 1, 1923.^[3]

Bouldin served on the court for 21 years,^[2] retiring to supernumerary status effective May 1, 1944.^[5]

In 1895, Bouldin married Irene Jacoway, of Dardanelle, Arkansas, with whom he had three children, including one son and one daughter who survived him.^[1][3] Bouldin died at his home in Scottsboro, Alabama, at the age of 82, and was buried at Scottsboro's Cedar Hill Cemetery.^[1] At the time of his death, he was the only living former supreme court justice in the state.^[1]