James S. Coleman (judge)

James S. Coleman Jr. was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama from 1957 to 1975.
Coleman was the grandson of Thomas W. Coleman, who also served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
Coleman received his undergraduate degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1927, attended the University of [Alabama School of Law], and gained admission to the bar in 1934.
He was elected to a six-year term on the state supreme court in 1956, and won re-election in 1962 and 1968. He chose not to run for re-election in 1974.
Coleman died at the age of 81, following a lengthy illness.