John James Ormond was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, from 1837 to 1847. John James Ormond was born in

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in 1795, to English parents. He died on 4 March 1866, in

Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuscaloosa ( ) is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west-central Alabama, United States, on the Black Warrior River where the Gulf Coastal and Piedmont plains meet. Alabama's fifth-largest city, it had an estimated population o ...

. He lived in Ormond House, it is now known as Ormond-Miller House.
John James Ormond wrote the Code of Alabama, with Arthur Pendleton Bagby, George Goldthwaite, and Henry Churchill. He wrote many famous legal papers as well. After serving on the Supreme Court for almost ten years, he did not seek reelection to the bench in 1847. One of his daughters, Mary Elizabeth Ormond, married John W. Mallet, of Texas, who had been born in Ireland.

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Code Of Alabama, By Brittian De Wolf, in 1852 state printer. Alabama State Papers. *http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v6329.pfd *http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v24185.htm *http://www.archives.state.al.us/findaids/v9869.pfd very long file 307 pages. Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama 1866 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Alabama-state-judge-stub