{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Joe Hubbard | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | state_house = Alabama | district = 73rd | term_start = November 2, 2010 | term_end = November 5, 2014 | preceded = David Grimes | succeeded = Matt Fridy | birth_date = | birth_place = Montgomery, Alabama | birth_name = | party = Democratic | spouse = | relations = | children = | alma_mater = Huntingdon College, Cumberland School of Law | occupation = | website = [http://www.legislature.state.al.us/house/representatives/housebios/hd073.html Joe Hubbard on the House Website] }}
'''Joseph Lister Hubbard Jr.''' is an American attorney in Montgomery, Alabama. Hubbard formerly was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing the 73rd district, in Montgomery County.<ref>[http://www.legislature.state.al.us/house/representatives/housebios/hd073.html Representative Joe Hubbard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302084039/http://www.legislature.state.al.us/house/representatives/housebios/hd073.html |date=March 2, 2012 }}. Alabama House of Representatives. Retrieved on January 20, 2012.</ref> Hubbard was the Democratic Party nominee for the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Alabama in 2014.
==Early life== Joe Hubbard was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. His great-grandfather (and namesake) was Alabama congressman and senator J. Lister Hill. Hubbard received his primary education from the Montgomery Academy. In 2003, Hubbard graduated from Huntingdon College and enrolled in the Juris Doctor program at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating law school in 2006, he was a law clerk to Alabama Supreme Court associate judge Champ Lyons before opening his own law firm.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=11868424 |title=WSFA NEWS 12 Joe Hubbard Enters District 73 race. |access-date=January 21, 2012 |archive-date=March 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308020851/http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=11868424 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Political career== In 2010, Joe Hubbard was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Representative of Alabama's 73rd district. In addition to being one of the youngest members of the House of Representatives, he was also the only Democrat to successfully unseat a Republican in the state's 2010 general election when he defeated incumbent Republican House member David Grimes.
Themes for Hubbard's 2010 legislative campaign jobs, education, and ethics reform.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Joseph_Lister_Hubbard|title=Joseph Lister Hubbard - Ballotpedia|access-date=2017-01-09}}</ref>
In 2014, Joe Hubbard received the Democratic nomination for the Office of Attorney General of the State of Alabama.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/10/luther_strange_joe_hubbard_bat.html|title=Luther Strange, Joe Hubbard battle over meaning of Mike Hubbard indictment in attorney general's race|newspaper=AL.com|access-date=2017-01-09}}</ref> Hubbard was defeated by incumbent Republican Luther Strange.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/luther_strange_wins_alabama_at.html|title=Republican Luther Strange wins Alabama attorney general race, earning second term and besting Democrat Joe Hubbard|newspaper=AL.com|access-date=2017-01-09}}</ref> Following the 2014 election, Joe opened the Joe Hubbard Law firm in the Montgomery, Alabama.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://joehubbardlaw.com/|title=joe-hubbard-law-firm|website=joe-hubbard-law-firm|access-date=2017-01-09|archive-date=January 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110091716/http://www.joehubbardlaw.com/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2015, Hubbard briefly campaigned for Circuit Court Judge but dropped out of the race weeks later.
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