Federal Court — AL
Northern District of Alabama
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Northern District of Alabama compiled from verified federal court records. Judge caseload counts, criminal docket fractions, and sentencing departure rates — never a prediction about a specific defendant.
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB × USSC FY14-23 — generated May 5, 2026
District Aggregate
Total Dockets
140,216
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
34
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
12.3%
across district judges
Booker Inflection
—
mean downward departure
Criminal fraction = criminal dockets ÷ total dockets per judge, averaged across the district. Booker inflection = mean downward-departure rate for judges in this district per USSC FY14-23. Aggregate frequencies only — not a prediction about any specific case.
Top Judges by Docket Volume
Judges ranked by total indexed docket count. Criminal fraction reflects the share of their docket classified as criminal (vs. civil).
| Judge | Total Dockets | Criminal Dockets | Criminal Fraction |
|---|---|---|---|
| R. Proctor | 33,228 | 548 | 1.7% |
| L. Coogler | 7,957 | 615 | 7.7% |
| William Acker | 7,707 | 1,499 | 19.4% |
| Inge Johnson | 7,615 | 463 | 6.1% |
| Sharon Blackburn | 7,195 | 1,120 | 15.6% |
| Charles Smith | 6,733 | 1,045 | 15.5% |
| U. Clemon | 6,592 | 1,062 | 16.1% |
| James Hancock | 5,712 | 1,351 | 23.6% |
| Robert Propst | 5,577 | 1,584 | 28.4% |
| Karon Bowdre | 5,261 | 602 | 11.4% |
Source: CourtListener × FJC IDB via mv_judge_docket_caseload. Counts reflect dockets indexed as of corpus build date.
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This is legal information, not legal advice. Aggregate data from verified public court records. Nothing here predicts a specific outcome.