William Wayne Lewis Jr. (known professionally as Bill Lewis) (born 1978) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama since 2025. He briefly served as an associate justice on the Alabama Supreme Court in mid-2025.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- African American
Prior employment
- Alabama Court of Civil AppealsJudge · 2024–2025
- Supreme Court of AlabamaAssociate justice · 2025
- Alabama Circuit Court, Nineteenth Judicial CircuitJudge · 2016–2024
- Private practice, Wetumpka, Alabama2005–2016
- Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, AlabamaAssistant district attorney · 2004–2005
- Alabama Circuit Court, Nineteenth Judicial CircuitLaw clerk , Hon. John Bush · 2003–2004
Appointments
2025–present · Appointed by Donald J. Trump (Republican)
Education
- Cumberland School of LawJ.D. · 2003
- University of the SouthB.A. · 2000