Registrar Spotlight
Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson was appointed to the Montgomery County Board of Registrars by Commissioner Rick Pate in October 2023.
Judge Anderson has a distinguished legal career. Following law school, he served as law clerk to Justice Coleman of the Alabama Supreme Court and later as an Assistant Attorney General for the State – he retired as a Deputy Attorney General. He also served as Montgomery County Attorney and Montgomery County Circuit Judge. He was President of the Montgomery County Bar Association when he was appointed to the bench in 1997.
Reared in Montgomery, he attended the University of Alabama, first in the School of Commerce and Business Administration from which he received a B.S. degree in 1960, and then in the School of Law from which he received his law degree in 1962. While at the University he was selected for numerous honorary organizations, including Who’s Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities and Omicron Delta Kappa.
He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from the Army ROTC program at the University and was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry. He completed 30 years of active and reserve duty and retired as a full colonel. He served with the Army in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Panama. He twice was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal along with other decorations.
He has been married to the former Jean Shaw Dearman of Livingston, Alabama, for 60 years. They have two sons: Mark IV, a graduate of the University of Alabama and Washington & Lee University School of Law; and Richard, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and Washington & Lee University School of Law. Richard now is a Judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Mark IV is the father of the Andersons’ four grandchildren.
Judge Anderson is an elder in Trinity Presbyterian Church, where he often serves as Clerk of the Session.
Judge Anderson has a distinguished legal career. Following law school, he served as law clerk to Justice Coleman of the Alabama Supreme Court and later as an Assistant Attorney General for the State – he retired as a Deputy Attorney General. He also served as Montgomery County Attorney and Montgomery County Circuit Judge. He was President of the Montgomery County Bar Association when he was appointed to the bench in 1997.
Reared in Montgomery, he attended the University of Alabama, first in the School of Commerce and Business Administration from which he received a B.S. degree in 1960, and then in the School of Law from which he received his law degree in 1962. While at the University he was selected for numerous honorary organizations, including Who’s Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities and Omicron Delta Kappa.
He was a Distinguished Military Graduate from the Army ROTC program at the University and was commissioned as a second lieutenant of Infantry. He completed 30 years of active and reserve duty and retired as a full colonel. He served with the Army in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Republic of Korea and the Republic of Panama. He twice was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal along with other decorations.
He has been married to the former Jean Shaw Dearman of Livingston, Alabama, for 60 years. They have two sons: Mark IV, a graduate of the University of Alabama and Washington & Lee University School of Law; and Richard, a graduate of the University of Mississippi and Washington & Lee University School of Law. Richard now is a Judge on the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals. Mark IV is the father of the Andersons’ four grandchildren.
Judge Anderson is an elder in Trinity Presbyterian Church, where he often serves as Clerk of the Session.