Retirement
Shores chose not to run for re-election in 1998. This meant that her final day on the bench was in January 1999.
Shores served as a supernumerary justice until 2001, when Roy Moore, then the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, dismissed her and replaced her with retired Justice Hugh Maddox.
In 2004, Shores served as one of seven members of a special State Supreme Court that considered the appeal of the ouster of Moore as chief justice. The court was chosen at random from a group of retired but still active judges. On April 30, 2004, the panel voted 7-0 not to reinstate Moore.
Shores lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
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