Seven retired judges have been selected for the special Supreme Court that will hear Chief Justice Roy Moore's appeal of his suspension from office.
The seven were among 50 whose names were drawn on Thursday under a procedure set up by the Alabama Supreme Court, which voted to recuse.
Gov. Robert Bentley signed an executive order today certifying the members of the special court.
The seven retired judges are H. Edward McFerrin, Robert G. Cahill, William R. King, James H. Reid Jr., Lynn Clardy Bright, Ralph A. Ferguson Jr., and John D. Coggin.
McFerrin was circuit judge in the 2nd Circuit, including Butler, Crenshaw and Lowndes counties, and retired at the end of 2010, according to a story about his retirement in The Greenville Advocate.
Cahill served 18 years as a district judge in Jefferson County before retiring in 2006.
King is a retired district judge from Crenshaw County.
Reid retired in 2013 after 24 years as a circuit judge in Baldwin County.
Clardy is a retired district judge from Montgomery County.
Ferguson is a retired Jefferson County circuit judge.
Coggin was a district judge in Cherokee County from 1982 to 1997.
In September, the Court of the Judiciary suspended Moore without pay for the remainder of his term for violating canons of judicial ethics.
The charges mainly concerned an administrative order Moore wrote to the state's probate judges in January telling them that they still had a duty to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
Moore's order to the probate judges came about six months after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.
Moore said he was not telling probate judges to defy federal court orders but was providing a status update on an Alabama case on gay marriage.
Last week, in a 5-3 decision, the other justices voted to recuse themselves from hearing Moore's appeal and set up the process to pick a special court.
That process called for drawing the names of 50 retired judges and for the first seven willing and qualified to serve on the special court.