New Etowah Judge named by Governor Bentley

Joe Nabors

Gov. Robert Bentley has appointed Joe Nabors to fill the Etowah County District Court Judge post that will be left vacant by Judge William Russell’s retirement.

Nabors is chairman of the county’s Republican Executive Committee and is executive director of the Calhoun-Cleburne Children’s Advocacy Center.

Nabors has dealt with the law from the ground up since he was accepted into the  Alabama State Troopers cadet program. Etowah was one of the counties he covered as an Alabama Bureau of Investigations agent, and continued to be as he advanced until his retirement at the rank of captain.

While working with the ABI, Nabors went to law school. Upon his retirement, he began practicing law full time and for a while served as a city prosecutor in Gadsden.  Nabors has served as attorney for the advocacy center, along with his duties as president.

Nabors will assume the post on January 1^st.