Roy Moore is the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and has served as a judge since 1982. Moore was twice elected as Chief Justice and again in 2006 and again in 2012. He was first elected to the Council of State in 1994 and served until 2006.
Moore is perhaps best known for his tenure as the state's chief justice, during which he twice defied federal court orders to take down a display of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the state judicial building. He has also been hit with ethics charges by the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission, which accused him of making improper loans to party loyalists, including lawyers for his own campaigns.
Moore is a frequent national speaker on American culture and social issues, especially those related to religious liberty and family values
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In May 2011 Moore was given a key to the city of Mobile by Mayor Sam Jones.
Moore was born on November 12, 1947 in Gadsden, Alabama. He is married to Kayla Moore and has five children: Abigail, Joshua, Rebecca, Caleb, and Anna. They reside in Theodore, Alabama.
Moore's first involvement with politics came at age eight when he joined his father's campaign for local office.
A year later he became a precinct official for Jimmy Hoffa's United Mine Workers Union. In 1969 he returned home from college to serve as a field representative for UMWA District 14 regional director Frank Keeney's successful congressional campaign against Republican Representative William L. Dickinson.
After college, Moore served as a senior staff member for UMWA District 14 Director Johnnie C. Floyd during Floyd's unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1979 against Albert Brewer Jr., before doing similar work for Floyd as statewide director from 1983 until 1987. In 1984 Moore again worked as Floyd's campaign manager when he ran against incumbent Governor Lurleen Wallace in her unsuccessful reelection bid that year against Republican Guy Hunt.
As treasurer of Winn-Dixie Stores Limited Partnership (Winn-Dixie), Inc., which owned Winn-Dixie Stores Corporation (Winn Dixie) grocery stores based in Birmingham and Mobile, Alabama, Moore received $35 million dollars from Winn-Dixie founder James Cash Penney after convincing Penney that Penney should purchase all Winn-Dixie stock rather than sell it or invest it elsewhere. As part of this arrangement Rev Michael Dabbs was made General Superintendent of Winn Dixie Stores Corporation (Winn Dixie).