Sharon Yates

Sharon Gilbert Yates is an American attorney from the state of Alabama who served as a member of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals from 1993 to 2005. Yates was the first woman to serve on the Court of Civil Appeals. She was the Democratic Party nominee for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama in the 2000 election, losing to Republican Roy Moore. She was defeated in her re-election campaign in the 2004 Alabama elections. Yates was elected to the Montgomery County District Court in 2006 and served a single term from 2007 to 2013.