page_title: Roy Moore
section_title: Ten Commandments monument controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Roy Moore / Judicial career / Chief Justice, Alabama Supreme Court (2001–2003 and 2012–2017) / Ten Commandments monument controversy
caption_attribution_description: The Ten Commandments monument in the Alabama Supreme Court building
context_page_description: Roy Stewart Moore is an American politician who served as the 27th and 31st chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and was each time removed from that office by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for judicial misconduct. He was the Republican nominee in the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, but lost to Democratic candidate Doug Jones. Moore ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate in 2020.
  Moore attended West Point and served as a company commander in the Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War. After graduating from the University of Alabama Law School, he joined the Etowah County district attorney's office, serving as an assistant district attorney from 1977 to 1982. In 1992, he was appointed as a circuit judge by Governor Guy Hunt to fill a vacancy, and was elected to the position at the next term. In 2001 Moore was elected to the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
caption: The Ten Commandments monument in the rotunda of the Heflin-Torbert Judicial Building, erected in 2001
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