Career
Honorary John James Ormond was an associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, from 1837-1847. He died on 4 March 1866, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He lived in Ormond House, it is now known as Ormond-Miller House.
John James Ormond wrote the Code of Alabama, with Arthur Pendleton Bagby, George Goldthwaite, and Henry Churchill.
He wrote many famous legal papers as well. After serving on the Supreme Court for almost ten years, he did not seek reelection to the bench in 1847.