Judge Pamela Higgins

Judge Pamela Higgins is reportedly the Alabama judge who decided to let Ibraheem Yazeed out on bond in an attempted murder case from early 2019.

It was while out on bond that Yazeed killed 19-year-old student Aniah Blanchard in October 2019.

District Judge, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Montgomery

Contact Information
Phone: 334-832-1359
Email: [email protected]

Higgins earned her B.A. from the University of Alabama and her J.D. from Mercer University.

She was admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1992.

1992, Alabama; 1995, U.S District Court, Middle District of Alabama; 1996, Georgia; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Alabama

Before serving as district judge for Montgomery County, she practiced with her own law office in Montgomery, Alabama.

Higgins was re-elected after running unopposed in 2012.

Ibraheem Yazeed charged with attempted murder, two counts of first degree kidnapping and two counts of first degree robbery. Booked in the Montgomery County Detention Facility on a $280,000 bond.