Carole Catlin Smitherman (born 1952) is a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. Smitherman served in 2009 as the 31st Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and spent several years as a member of the City Council before resigning to assume her current judicial position.
Carole Smitherman was first elected to the Birmingham City Council in 2001 and has been re-elected twice. She campaigned unsuccessfully for the mayor's office in 2003, 2007, and 2009.
As President of the Birmingham City Council, she assumed the office of mayor when Larry Langford was convicted of 60 counts of bribery and related charges on October 28, 2009.[2] A month later, she then lost the position when the new council convened on November 24, 2009, and elected Roderick Royal as council president on a 5–4 vote, thus automatically making Royal the acting mayor. Smitherman later lost her election bid as mayor in a special election following Langford's conviction.[3][4]
Carole Smitherman was Birmingham's first African-American female mayor. She also was the first African-American woman hired as a deputy district attorney in Jefferson County and first African American female Municipal and Circuit Court Judge in Birmingham. Smitherman also served as a municipal prosecutor for the city of Irondale, Alabama. She was elected to her current judicial office in 2012, after beating attorney Pat Thetford. The seat handles civil matters and controversy over $10,000.[5]
^"Smitherman brings heart, endurance to race". Birmingham News. 2007-09-24.
^. Birmingham Weekly. 2009-10-28. Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
^Bryant, Joseph D. (2009-11-24). "Roderick Royal elected Birmingham Council president, and will serve as interim mayor". The Birmingham News.
^"A Black Woman Carole Smitherman Becomes Mayor of Birmingham, Ala". BET.com. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
^"Smitherman beats Thetford in Jefferson County Circuit Court Place 13 race, will step down from Birmingham City Council". AL.com. 7 November 2012. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
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