Hon. John James Ormond was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court

Alabama Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Alabama is the highest court in the state of Alabama. The court consists of an elected Chief Justice and eight elected Associate Justices. Each justice is elected in partisan elections for staggered six year terms. The Governor of Alabama may fill vacancies when they occur...

, from 1837-1847. John James Ormond was born in England

England

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 in 1795, to English parents. He died on 4th March 1866, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama . Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama, with a population of 90,468 in 2010...

. He lived in Ormond House, it is now known as Ormond-Miller House.
John James Ormond wrote the Code of Alabama, with Arthur Pendleton Bagby, George Goldthwaite

George Goldthwaite

George Goldthwaite was a U.S. senator from the state of Alabama. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1871 to March 4, 1877, and did not run for reelection.-External links:*...

, and Henry Churchill. He wrote many famous legal papers as well. After serving on the Supreme Court for almost ten years, he did not seek reelection to the bench in 1847. One of his daughters, Mary Elizabeth Ormond, married John W. Mallet, of Texas, who had been born in Ireland.