when was roy moore elected district attorney in etowah county?

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When was Judge Moore reelected?

Judge Moore was overwhelmingly re-elected by a vote of the people of Alabama as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in November of 2012 and took office in January of 2013. In 2016, Judge Moore was suspended for upholding the sanctity of marriage as between one man and one woman. He retired to seek the office of U.S. Senate in 2017.

Where did Judge Moore go to law school?

Judge Moore graduated from Etowah High School in Attalla, Alabama, in 1965 and from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1969 where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Arts and Engineering. He then served in the U.S. Army as a company commander with the Military Police Corps in Vietnam. After the Army, Judge Moore completed his Juris Doctor degree from The University of Alabama School of Law in 1977.

How many children does Judge Moore have?

Judge Moore and his wife, Kayla, have four children and five grandchildren. They are members of First Baptist Church in Gallant, Alabama.

Where did Roy Moore go to law school?

After being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1974 at the rank of captain, Moore enrolled in the University of Alabama School of Law and graduated with a law degree in 1977. He then returned to Etowah County, becoming the deputy district attorney. In 1982, he unsuccessfully competed in the Democratic primary for the position of Circuit Court judge for Etowah County. After failing to win the election, the dejected Moore took a maintenance job in Galveston, Texas, before moving to Australia in 1984, where he worked on a ranch. Afterwards, he moved back to Alabama, where served as a lawyer in private practice. In 1985, he married Kayla Kisor Heald, a divorcee with one child, whom Moore later adopted. Together they would have three children.

Who is Roy Moore?

Roy Stewart Moore (1947- ) is a politically and religiously conservative politician and former judge who is best known for the national controversy surrounding his placement of a two-and-a-half-ton monument to the Ten Commandments in the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building while serving as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He was removed from his position as chief justice, in 2003 for refusing to remove the Ten Commandments monument and was suspended in 2016 for defying the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage. Over four decades, Moore has also served as the Deputy District Attorney of Etowah County and judge on the Sixteenth Judicial Court of Alabama. He also ran unsuccessfully for governor. He lost a 2017 special election to the U.S. Senate after allegations surrounding inappropriate relationships with under-age girls became public, and he failed again in 2019. Moore established the Foundation for Moral Law in 2002 to promote his view that Judeo-Christian values are the basis for American government and law.