Calls concerning any active cases that started with Judge Wilters now go to Judge Taylor.
Judge Scott Taylor is a native of Baldwin County, Alabama, raised in the Silverhill area. He is a graduate of Bayside Academy, The University of South Alabama, and Thomas Goode Jones School of Law of Faulkner University.
Judge Taylor spent nearly 10 years in private practice with his father Lloyd Taylor and sister, Julie, and also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General before becoming Deputy Chief Assistant District Attorney for the Baldwin County District Attorney. In 2012, he was elected to the 28th Judicial Circuit as a District Judge where he served for two and a half years. In 2015, Governor Robert Bentley appointed Judge Taylor to be a Circuit Judge after the retirement of Judge Robert Wilters. Judge Taylor currently handles one fourth of all circuit criminal and circuit civil cases along with his fellow circuit court judges. Additionally, Judge Taylor has been the Drug Court judge since 2015 and in August of 2021, he started the Baldwin County Mental Health Court Program
Judge Taylor and his wife have six children and are both members of the Republican Party. He is a past member of the Baldwin County Republican Executive Committee, past president of the Fairhope Soccer League and has been active in coaching soccer for over twenty (20) years.