{{Short description|American judge (born 1962)}} {{BLP sources|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Alisa Kelli Wise |office = Associate Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court |term_start = January 17, 2011 |term_end = |predecessor = Patricia Smith |successor = |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|12|14}} |birth_place = |death_date = |death_place = |party = Republican |education = Auburn University (BS)<br>Auburn University at Montgomery (MPA)<br>Faulkner University (JD) }} '''Alisa Kelli Wise''' (born December 14, 1962)<ref>{{cite book |last=Charles B. Brownson (editor) |date=May 2011 |title=Judicial Staff Directory 2011, Summer |publisher=CQ Press |isbn=9780872896468 }}</ref> is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court since 2011.<ref>{{cite web |last=Chandler |first=Kim |title=Wave of Republicans sworn into state offices in Montgomery |url=https://www.al.com/spotnews/2011/01/wave_of_republicans_sworn_into.html |website=AL.com |date=January 17, 2011}}</ref>
== Education ==
Wise is a graduate of Auburn University and the Thomas Goode Jones School of Law at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. She later earned a Master of Public Administration from Auburn University at Montgomery.<ref name="SupremeCourtBio">{{Cite web |url=https://judicial.alabama.gov/CourtMemberBio/ViewBio?id=7 |title=Associate Justice Wise |website=judicial.alabama.gov |access-date=2019-12-23}}</ref>
== Judicial career ==
She previously served on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, to which she was first elected in 2000. Upon taking office in 2001, she became the youngest woman to ever serve on an Alabama appellate court. Re-elected in 2006, she resigned from the appellate court upon her election to the Alabama Supreme Court. She was first elected as a Republican in 2010 to the Alabama Supreme Court,<ref name="SupremeCourtBio" /> and re-elected in 2016.
== Personal life ==
She and her husband, retired District Judge Arthur Ray, have one daughter.<ref name="SupremeCourtBio" />
==See also== * List of female state supreme court justices
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==External links== *{{Ballotpedia|Kelli_Wise|Kelli Wise}} * [http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/121596/alisa-wise#.VCDHEBZvDWA Biography at Vote Smart]
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