Sue Bell Cobb Stresses Experience as a Judge and a Lottery Proposal

**FILE**Sue Bell Cobb, Alabama’s first elected female chief justice, poses for a portrait, Nov. 14, 2006, in Montgomery, Ala. She is supporting a bill that would set experience requirements for the state’s judges even though it would have prevented her from becoming a judge three weeks after becoming a lawyer. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

Former Alabama Chief Justice Sue Bell Cobb is stressing her 30 years on the judicial bench and her proposal for a state lottery in her run for governor.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Cobb said her priorities include creating a state lottery to fund education programs from preschool to the community college level

She says it’s time for the state to have a governor who cares more about “the next generation than the next election.”

Cobb, who resigned from the Supreme Court in 2011, was one of the last Democrats to win statewide election in Alabama.

She faces Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox and former state legislator James Fields in the June 5 Democratic primary. The winner will face the Republican nominee.

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