Judge George R. Reynolds

George R. Reynolds graduated from Ensley High School, attended Auburn University and graduated from the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama School of Law.

Judge Reynolds served in the Judge Advocate General Corp. of the U.S. Army and retired with the rank of Colonel after 30 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserve.

He practiced law in Birmingham from 1955 to 1974, when he was elected as a District Court Judge in the Tenth Judicial Circuit (Jefferson County). He was appointed as the Judge of Probate, Place 2, in 1980 and was elected in 1982. Judge Reynolds was elected as the Presiding Judge of Probate, Place 1, in 1988 and re-elected in 1994. He retired in January, 2001.

Judge Reynolds was a member of the Alabama State Bar Association, Birmingham Bar Association, the Alabama Probate Judges Association, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Masons and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.