Roy Moore is an American politician, lawyer, and jurist who previously served as the 27th and 31st chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, but was removed from office both times by the Alabama Court of the Judiciary for judicial misconduct. After serving in the Vietnam War, he worked as an assistant district attorney at the Etowah County district attorney's office from 1977 to 1982 before being appointed as a circuit judge in 1992. Between his two terms as chief justice, he unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of Alabama in 2006 and 2010. Amidst several public allegations of sexual misconduct, he sought to run for the U.S. Senate special election in Alabama in 2017, but ended up losing the seat to a Democrat.
