Joseph Lister Hubbard Jr. is an American attorney in

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. Hubbard formerly served as a member of the

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, representing the 73rd district, in Montgomery County. Hubbard was the Democratic Party nominee for the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Alabama in 2014.

Early life

Joe Hubbard was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his primary education from the Montgomery Academy. In 2003, Hubbard graduated from

Huntingdon College Huntingdon College is a private Methodist college in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1854 as a women's college. History Huntingdon College was chartered on February 2, 1854, as " Tuskegee Female College" by the Alabama State Legislature ...

and enrolled in the Juris Doctor program at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating law school in 2006, he served as a law clerk to

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associate judge Champ Lyon before opening his own law firm.

Political career

In 2010, Joe Hubbard ran for and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Representative of Alabama's 73rd district. In addition to being one of the youngest members of the House of Representatives, he was also the only Democrat to successfully unseat a Republican in the state's 2010 general election when he defeated incumbent Republican House member David Grimes. Hubbard's 2010 legislative campaign focused on several themes and he was often quoted discussing jobs, education and ethics reform. In 2014, Joe Hubbard received the Democratic nomination for the Office of Attorney General of the State of Alabama. Hubbard was defeated by incumbent Republican Luther Strange. Following the 2014 election, Joe opened the Joe Hubbard Law firm in the Montgomery, Alabama. In 2015, Hubbard briefly campaigned for Circuit Court Judge but dropped out of the race weeks later.

Legal career

Joe Hubbard is a civil litigation attorney in Montgomery, Alabama.

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