Joe Hubbard

Joseph "Joe" Lister Hubbard Jr. is an attorney in Montgomery, Alabama. Hubbard formerly served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, representing the 73rd district, in Montgomery County. Hubbard was the Democratic Party nominee for the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Alabama in 2014.

Joe Hubbard was born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama. He received his primary education from the Montgomery Academy. In 2003, Hubbard graduated from Huntingdon College and enrolled in the Juris Doctorate program at the Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. After graduating law school in 2006, he served as a law clerk to Alabama Supreme Court associate judge Champ Lyon before opening his own law firm. He is the great-grandson of J. Lister Hill, who represented Alabama in the United States Congress for more than forty-five years.

In 2010, Joe Hubbard ran for and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives as a Representative of Alabama's 73rd district. In addition to being one of the youngest members of the House of Representatives, he was also the only Democrat to successfully unseat a Republican in the state's 2010 general election when he defeated incumbent Republican House member David Grimes. Nationwide, Hubbard was the only Democrat one of only a dozen to do defeat a seated Republican state legislator. Hubbard received 8,137 votes while Grimes received only 7,825 votes.

Hubbard's 2010 legislative campaign focused on several themes and he was often quoted discussing jobs, education and ethics reform.

In 2014, Joe Hubbard received the Democratic nomination for the Office of Attorney General of the State of Alabama. Although Hubbard received more than 470,000 votes and received more votes than any Democrat running for any office in Alabama, he was defeated by incumbent Republican Luther Strange. Following the 2014 election, Joe opened the Joe Hubbard Law firm in the Montgomery, Alabama.

Joe Hubbard is a civil litigation attorney and founder of the Joe Hubbard Law Firm in Montgomery, Alabama. After more than 80 children were impacted by an outbreak of staph infection at Sunnyside Child Care, an Alabama daycare facility, Hubbard secured a settlement of $1 million for the victims.