Federal Court — AL
Southern District of Alabama
Aggregate docket intelligence for the Southern 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
38,778
indexed in corpus
Judges Indexed
16
with docket data
Avg Criminal Fraction
12.4%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Cassady | 4,397 | 596 | 13.6% |
| Bert Milling | 4,058 | 522 | 12.9% |
| Charles Butler | 4,039 | 1,156 | 28.6% |
| Kristi DuBose | 3,817 | 209 | 5.5% |
| William Steele | 3,809 | 452 | 11.9% |
| William Hand | 3,556 | 940 | 26.4% |
| Callie Granade | 3,534 | 396 | 11.2% |
| Richard Vollmer | 2,659 | 788 | 29.6% |
| Alex Howard | 2,023 | 692 | 34.2% |
| Thomas Pittman | 1,932 | 253 | 13.1% |
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.