Harold Frend See, Jr. (born November 7, 1943) is a legal scholar and was an associate justice of the

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from 1997 to 2009. The son of Harold F. See, Sr., and Corinne See, he was born at the

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while his father was serving with the

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in the South Pacific. See received a

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from

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, an

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in economics from

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, and a J.D. from the

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, where he graduated with honors and was awarded the

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.Supreme Court justice says he will not seek re-election
''Tuscaloosa News'' (August 1, 2007). See worked his way through school as a

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operator, a

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worker, and a roofer. He served as

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of economics at

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and practiced law with the law firm of

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. He joined the faculty at the

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, where he served for over twenty years successively as associate professor, full professor, and Herbert D. Warner Professor of Law. In 1996, he was elected associate justice of the

as a Republican by defeating first-term incumbent Democrat Kenneth Ingram in a race that attracted national attention for its rough campaign.Associated Press, Bill Poovey, October 9, 1996 See was sworn in following his November election in January, 1997. He lost a Republican Primary race to become chief justice in 2000 to then-Etowah County Circuit Judge

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, but was re-elected to a second term on the Supreme Court in 2002. He declined to run for reelection to a third term in 2008 and was succeeded by

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. See is currently a professor at

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, where he teaches intellectual property, trademarks, and law and economics.

Affiliations

See has served as a contributing editor to the ''

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'', and he is a member of the

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, the Alabama Law Institute, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and V.O.C.A.L., a victims' rights advocacy group. In 2011, Justice See joined the faculty of the Belmont University College of Law in Nashville, Tennessee.

References

External links

www.judicial.state.al.us
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