Law and Politics
- Arthur Alber, Los Angeles, California, City Council member, 1927–29
- Douglas Arant, attorney and co-founder of Bradley Arant Boult & Cummings
- Richard Arrington, first African-American mayor of Birmingham
- B. B. Comer, Governor of Alabama
- Eugene "Bull" Connor, former Commissioner of Public Safety
- Hugh Culverhouse, lawyer and owner of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Russell McWhortor Cunningham, Governor of Alabama
- John Grenier (1930-2007), Republican politician in Alabama
- Art Hanes, mayor of Birmingham
- Gil Hill, Detroit, Michigan city council president and actor
- Perry O. Hooper, Sr., 27th chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, was born in Birmingham in 1925.
- Bernard Kincaid, mayor of Birmingham
- Warren A. Morton, Birmingham native; oilman from Casper, Wyoming, and late Republican Speaker of Wyoming House of Representatives
- Cecil F. Poole, federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit
- Charles Redding Pitt, chairman of Alabama Democratic Party
- Condoleezza Rice, United States Secretary of State
- George G. Siebels, Jr., first Republican to serve as mayor of Birmingham (1967-1975)
- Luther Strange, Attorney General of Alabama since 2011, was born in Birmingham.
- Margaret Tutwiler, diplomat
- Robert S. Vance chairman of Democratic Party and Plaintiffs lawyer, federal judge United States Court of Appeals for Eleventh Circuit
- Donald Watkins, attorney, banker
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