Alisa Kelli Wise (born December 14, 1962) is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court since 2011.

Education

Wise is a graduate of Auburn University and the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. She later earned a Master of Public Administration from Auburn University at Montgomery.

Alisa Kelli Wise

Judicial career

She previously served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, to which she was first elected in 2000. Upon taking office in 2001, she became the youngest woman to ever serve on an Alabama appellate court. Re-elected in 2006, she resigned from the appellate court upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court. She was first elected as a Republican in 2010 to the Alabama Supreme Court, and re-elected in 2016.

Alisa Kelli Wise

Personal life

She and her husband, retired District Judge Arthur Ray, have one daughter.

Alisa Kelli Wise

References

External links

Biography at Vote Smart

1962 births

Living people

20th-century American lawyers

21st-century American judges

Alabama Republicans

American United Methodists

Auburn University alumni

People from Geneva County, Alabama

Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama

Thomas Goode Jones School of Law alumni

21st-century American women judges

20th-century American women