Arthur Teele takes over as Alabaster’s Director of Courts
In May 2025, Arthur Teele left a long court career in the city of Birmingham to take over as Alabaster’s new Director of Courts and Court Clerk. “I couldn’t ask for a better team,” Teele says. And while Alabaster is smaller than Birmingham, and the pace isn’t quite the same, Teele says, “It feels like family.”
And speaking of family, Teele grew up in a family that valued success. Teele’s father was a lawyer and politician in South Florida, and his mother was an
anesthesiologist in Birmingham. After graduating from Homewood High School in 1996, Teele went on to Florida A&M in Tallahassee and majored in political science and English, with a plan “to go into some form of law enforcement,” Teele says. “That was a big passion of mine.”…