Riggs Walker is running unopposed for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 5, after incumbent Judge Beth Kellum dropped her re-election bid in February.
Kellum has served on the Court of Criminal Appeals since 2009. She will finish her current term, which ends in January.
“Judge Kellum served Alabama wisely and honorably as a judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals for three terms. We, as a State, are better off for her service. I hope to continue her standard of excellent jurisprudence when I take her place on the Court,” Walker told 1819 News recently.
Alabama’s primary election is on May 19.
After graduating law school, Walker clerked for Circuit Judge William Shashy in the 15th Judicial Circuit. In 1999, he moved to Birmingham to work as a deputy District Attorney in the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
For the last six years, Walker has worked as an Assistant Attorney General for Alabama. He represents the state in cases before the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the Alabama Supreme Court and federal courts.
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