{"id":1797,"date":"2024-01-26T04:23:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/?page_id=1797"},"modified":"2024-01-26T04:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T04:37:05","slug":"judge-ronald-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/?page_id=1797","title":{"rendered":"Judge Ronald Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"contentpasted0\"><b>Hon. Ronald Smith<\/b><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"contentpasted0\"><b>District Judge<\/b><\/span><b><br \/>\n<span class=\"contentpasted0\">Phone: 256-532-1057<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"contentpasted0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-W.-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1806 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-W.-Smith-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-W.-Smith-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Ronald-W.-Smith.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Judge Ronald Smith is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and has been a resident of Madison County for the past 22 years. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1998 with a major in Justice Sciences\u00a0 and a minor in Spanish.<\/span><span class=\"contentpasted0\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Judge Smith received his Juris Doctorate in 2000 from the University of\u00a0\u00a0Alabama School of Law.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"contentpasted0\">Judge Smith served as assistant District Attorney for Madison County from 2001 to 2003.\u00a0 He was in the private practice of law for over 20 years, practicing in the areas of civil litigation, criminal defense, domestic relations and child-welfare law. \u00a0 \u00a0As a practicing attorney, Judge Smith was a member of the Huntsville Madison County Bar Association where he served previously as secretary. Judge Smith received both merit and president\u2019s awards from the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for which he served on the Board of Directors and was named President in 2020. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"contentpasted0\">Judge Smith was appointed as District Judge in May of 2023 by Governor Kay Ivey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"contentpasted0\">Judge Smith has been married to his wife Lydia, for 21 years and they have 4 children. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hon. Ronald Smith District Judge Phone: 256-532-1057 Judge Ronald Smith is a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and has been a resident of Madison County for the past 22 years. He received a B.S. from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1998 with a major in Justice Sciences\u00a0 and a minor in Spanish.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Judge Smith received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/23judicialcircuit.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}