The U.S. Senate voted 49-27 on Thursday to confirm Alabama Supreme Court Justice Greg Cook to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.

The confirmation followed a 50-27 cloture vote earlier Thursday that ended debate on the nomination. U.S. Senator Katie Britt (R-Montgomery) and U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) both voted yes on that motion. No Democrat voted for it.

“The people of the Great State of Alabama are in good hands with Greg on the Federal Bench,” President Donald Trump said in his announcement of Cook’s nomination.

Cook was raised in Florence and lives in Vestavia Hills. He graduated from Duke University and Harvard Law School, served in the U.S. Air Force as a captain and practiced law at Balch & Bingham in Birmingham for more than three decades. Alabama voters elected him to the state Supreme Court in 2022 with 67.4% of the vote.

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Britt, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced Cook at his confirmation hearing in August and called him “one of Alabama’s finest.” The committee approved the nomination 12-10 in September.

Cook told the committee he begins every case with the text of the law.

“We don’t determine what it should be, we determine what it is,” Cook said.

Cook is the fourth Alabamian confirmed to a federal district judgeship in Trump’s second term. The Senate confirmed Eddie LaCour and Hal Mooty to the Northern District and Bill Lewis to the Middle District last year.

He fills the seat of U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor, who took senior status on January 1. The Northern District is Alabama’s largest federal court and sits in Birmingham, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa, Anniston, Decatur, Florence and Gadsden.

Governor Kay Ivey will appoint Cook’s successor on the Alabama Supreme Court.

Grayson Everett is the editor in chief of Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270.