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Name
  
C. Torbert,


Full Name
  
Clement Clay Torbert, Jr.

Born
  
August 31, 1929 (age 94) (
1929-08-31
)
Opelika, Alabama, U.S.

Occupation
  
lawyer, politician, judge

Education
  
Auburn University, University of Alabama School of Law

American jurist C C Torbert Jr Died at 88


Clement Clay "Bo" Torbert Jr. (born August 31, 1929) is an American jurist and was the twenty-fifth Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1977 through 1989.

Torbert was born in Lee County, Alabama, the son of Clement Clay Torbert Jr. and Lynda H. Meadows, and the grandson of Clement Clay Torbert Sr. and Aylmerine Spearman Floyd.

Torbert attended the United States Naval Academy and Auburn University, receiving a bachelor's degree from Auburn in 1951. He attended law school at the University of Maryland and the University of Alabama. After entering private law practice in Opelika in 1954, he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1958. In 1966 and 1974, he was elected to the Alabama Senate.

In 1976, Torbert was elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He took office on January 17, 1977, and was re-elected to a second term in 1982. He retired as Chief Justice in 1989.

The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building, the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery, Alabama, is named jointly for U.S. Senator Howell Heflin and former Justice C.C. Torbert.

References

C. C. Torbert Jr. Wikipedia