Clement Clay "Bo" Torbert Jr. (August 31, 1929 – June 2, 2018) was an

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jurist. He was the twenty-fifth Chief Justice of the

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from 1977 through 1989. Torbert was born in Lee County, Alabama, the son of Clement Clay Torbert Jr. and Lynda H. Meadows, and the grandson of Clement Clay Torbert Sr. and Aylmerine Spearman Floyd. Clement Clay Sr. was from

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, where his grandfather, James Torbert, served as the first postmaster. Torbert attended the

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and Auburn University, receiving a

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from Auburn in 1951. He attended law school at the

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and the

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. After entering private law practice in Opelika in 1954, he was elected to the

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in 1958. In 1966 and 1974, he was elected to the

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. In 1976, Torbert was elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He took office on January 17, 1977, and was re-elected to a second term in 1982. He retired as chief justice in 1989. The Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building, the

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in Montgomery, Alabama, is named jointly for U.S. Senator

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and former Justice C.C. Torbert. He died on June 2, 2018, at his home, at the age of 88.Bo Torbert, former Alabama chief justice and Auburn alumnus, dies at age 88
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Sources

* Alabama Department of Archives and History.

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