JUDGE AUBREY FORD, JR.

Judge Aubrey Ford, Jr., a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received his undergraduate degree from Lincoln University, Lincoln Pennsylvania, in 1970. He is a graduate of the Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., and a former Assistant Attorney General. Judge Ford practiced law with the law firm of Gray, Seay and Langford in Tuskegee, Alabama until September 2, 1977 when Governor George Wallace appointed him to serve as District Judge for Macon County. 

Judge Ford served as President of the Alabama Juvenile and Family Court Judges Association and the Alabama District Court Judges Association. Judge Ford has been recognized as a leader in our judicial system and every chief justice since 1977 has appointed him to serve on a number of committees and task-forces for the improvement of judicial system. Judge Ford is a charter member and former Chair of the Alabama Supreme Court’s Commission on Dispute Resolution and he is the only Alabama trial judge to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is also a past Chair of the Board of Directors of the East Alabama Task Force for Battered Women, and he currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Children’s First Foundation. Judge Ford is the chair of the newly organized Alabama Board of Court Reporters. He is an active member of the Alabama State Bar and he has been appointed to serve on several committees. Judge Ford has been a member of the screening committee for American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for more than 15 years. Judge Ford is a graduate of the National Juvenile College and he has completed several courses presented by the National Judicial College, and he has lectured at a number of state and national meetings on various legal issues. 

Licensed to practice law in Alabama and Pennsylvania, Judge Ford is a member of a number of legal and civic organizations and he has received a number of awards for his service to his community, the legal system and the children of the State of Alabama. He has been named Man of the Year by the YMCA, Judge of the Year and he received the Outstanding Service Award from the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia. Judge Ford is a Sunday school teacher and Chairman of the Deacon Board of the Greenwood Missionary Baptist Church in Tuskegee. Judge Ford is a family man and he and his wife Barbara are the proud parents of four children and one grandchild.