Carole Smitherman

Carole Smitherman
Circuit Court Judge of Alabama's Tenth Judicial Circuit
In office
January 15, 2013  January 2025
Succeeded byFrederic Bolling
Constituencyplace 13
31st Mayor of Birmingham
In office
October 28, 2009  November 24, 2009
Preceded byLarry Langford
Succeeded byRoderick Royal
President of the Birmingham City Council
In office
November 2005  November 24, 2009
Member of the Birmingham City Council from the 6th district
In office
2001  January 15, 2013
Preceded byPat Alexander
Succeeded bySheila Tyson
Personal details
Born1952
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseRodger Smitherman
Children4
Crystal Smitherman
Alma materSpelman College
Miles College

Carole Catlin Smitherman (born 1952) is an American politician and jurist, serving as a Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge. Smitherman served in 2009 as the 31st Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama and spent several years as a member of the City Council before resigning to assume her current judicial position.