Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame adds five inductees, bringing membership to 100

The Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame inducted five attorneys at a 2025 ceremony at the Heflin Torbert Judicial Building, bringing the group’s total membership to 100. Sam Rumor, chairman of the Lawyers Hall of Fame committee, opened the ceremony and explained the selection process and committee composition.

The honors recognized a mix of law professors, trial lawyers, judges and a 19th‑century federal judge. Chief Justice Sarah Stewart of the Supreme Court of Alabama delivered welcoming remarks, urging attendees to remember the inductees’ example: “their contributions matter, and not just the cases that they heard or the rulings they issued, but in the example they have set for generations of legal professionals.”

Nut graf: The five inductees span Alabama legal history and public service. The honorees cited at the event were Camille Wright Cook (legal educator and the University of Alabama’s first tenured female law professor), James O’Haley (trial lawyer, judge and teacher), George Washington Lane (a 19th‑century federal judge and noted Unionist during the Civil War era),…