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Mobile City Clerk Lisa Lambert Reflects on Three Decades of Trailblazing Service Ahead of Retirement

James Bullard, July 20, 2026

Mobile City Clerk Lisa Lambert, the city’s first Black female clerk, is set to retire in December after more than 30 years of service to city government.

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Graddick Names Thomas Stiles to Lead Mobile County’s Court Police

James Bullard, November 1, 2012

Presiding Mobile County Circuit Judge Charlie Graddick tapped court police lieutenant Thomas L. Stiles to become the next chief of the 13th Judicial Police Department, succeeding the retiring Bob Patterson.

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Mobile County’s Longest-Serving Judge, Mike McMaken, to Retire Oct. 1

James Bullard, August 2, 2012

District Judge Mike McMaken, the longest-serving judge in Mobile County, announced he will step down Oct. 1 after more than 25 years on the bench, setting off a scramble to fill his seat.

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Baldwin Judge Charles Partin Calls Retirement Rumors Premature

James Bullard, January 6, 2011

Baldwin County Circuit Judge Charles Partin, a 25-year veteran of the bench who recently presided over the Steve Nodine murder trial, said talk of his imminent retirement was at least premature.

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Wrestling the Bear: A Baldwin County Retiree’s Plan to Trade His Way to Disney World

James Bullard, May 28, 2008

With the market falling and a promised family trip on the line, a retired paper mill manager in Baldwin County laid out the leveraged ETF trading system he used to generate income in a bear market.

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After 43 Years in the Schools, Fred Marshall Asked Voters for Six More

James Bullard, April 3, 2008

Assistant Superintendent Fred Marshall announced a Democratic run for the Mobile County school board seat being vacated by Hazel Fournier, planning to retire in May after 43 years in the system.

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Alabama’s Longest-Serving Judge to Leave the Mobile Bench Three Months Early

James Bullard, July 21, 2006

Circuit Judge Ferrill D. McRae, appointed by George Wallace 41 years earlier and the longest continuously serving judge in Alabama history, planned to step down from the Mobile bench on Oct. 1, 2006.

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Lessons From a Hospital Bed: How a Mobile Stockbroker Learned to Stop Chasing the Last Dollar

James Bullard, January 13, 2005

The concluding installment of a Mobile memoir: a foul-mouthed doctor diagnoses a pulmonary embolism, a broker survives, and a man decides that a million-dollar year is not what he will be remembered for.

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