Bay Minette, Alabama - Baldwin County probate judge Tim Russell, announced his candidacy for a full term in the position he currently holds.
Russell, who served as mayor of Foley 1996-2006, will seek the nomination for the bench on the Republican ticket in the primary elections in March. The general election will be held November 6, 2012.
Russell, 63, served as head judge of probate since his appointment in April 2010 by former Governor Bob Riley to complete the term of Adrian Johns, who left office after 15 years. The term expires in January 2013.
In July, the lawyer Harry Jr. Olive of Spanish Fort announced his plans to seek the Republication nomination for the position.
Base salary for the position is $118,948.50 annually for a 6-year term, according to the Probate Office. However, on Oct. 1, Russell will have been on the bench for more than a year and will receive a 1.5-percent pay increase, he said.
Russell, of Foley, previously served as the state revenue commissioner as well as state land commissioner. In July, Gov. Robert Bentley appointed him to lead the Affordable Homeowners Insurance Commission, which works to address the state’s troubled insurance market.
“We are working diligently to stop the rising cost of insurance for the benefit of all Alabamians,” Russell said.
In his campaign, increased services and responsibility to Baldwin County residents are his basic goals, he said.
“I want to bring continued expansion of services through the probate office, which touches every citizen in the county pretty much because every household in the county generally will have at least one of our licenses or one of our services,” he said.
The Baldwin Probate Office generates $30 million to $40 million in annual revenue, Russell said. “The money that we raise for the county, the state and the municipalities — all of that money is the taxpayers’ money and it’s there for services for them,” he said.

“We are working diligently to stop the rising cost of insurance for the benefit of all Alabamians,” Russell said. In his campaign, increased services and responsibility to Baldwin County residents are his basic goals, he said.
Michelle Kurtz of Baldwin County-based Homeowners' Hurricane Insurance Initiative is the only person on the AHIC who represents a citizens' group. Kurtz said the group has about 3000 members and was asked to join the AHIC after a 2010 gubernatorial
Russell said he hopes attendance improves at those meetings because he anticipates inland residents will soon experience the same thing that happened to some of his Baldwin County neighbors — insurance costs on a $200000 home quadrupling to as much

Faulkenberry first gained experience in property insurance while working with State Farm Insurance as Claims Specialist/Account Representative. Faulkenberry attends St. Andrew by the Sea Church on Fort Morgan Road. J. Greer Crow has joined as a
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Fraudulent Service – Baldwin County Hospital – Oconee Regional Medical Center
When my son was four years old he was supposedly had broken his thigh in three place according to the doctors at Baldwin County Hospital. They keep my son up in that hospital for three months in retraction they cut his thigh and the scar are still their some 21 years later.
My son got his leg hurt back in November of 2010 and the leg started hurting him bad.I took him to the doctor in July of 2011 trying make sure he had dislocated something in the leg. Well, I found out their was no plate rod or pins in my son body period. I was destroyed because after going through having to quit my jobs,welfare breathing down my neck and the police at my house ever day questioning my children behind my back and I learned that his legs don’t show a sign were a bone was ever broken in my son this have hurt me.
Not only that my job insurance covered him and medicaid because he is disable from birth. I know it’s been 21 years back when this incident happen but oh my world this is not fair. I called the hospital which it now call Oconee Regional Medical Center and we requested medical recorder and the main lady in the medical recorder told me seen it been over 10 years they were in an of shore account and when she found them she would call me back and I have been waiting on the call every since July.
Do you feel like this was cover up of medical wrong doing and way to defraud the medicaid and my insurance? I don’t feel like this should not be be gone unnoticed. Can you all help me or tell me what to do? This is not right I lost everything I had because of this, my home and land.