Lucien D. Gardner

Lucien Dunbidden Gardner (November 28, 1876 – November 2, 1952) was a justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1914 to 1951. He served as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1940 to 1951.

Gardner was an alumnus of Troy State University and University of Alabama School of Law.

He was elected to the Alabama State Senate in 1906.

During the 1948 presidential election campaign, Gardner's court made a landmark ruling that Alabama's presidential electors can never be required to vote for any party's national nominee. This excluded both current incumbent President Harry S. Truman and 1964 incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson from ballot access in Alabama.

He married Henrietta Wiley of Troy, Alabama. His son, Lucien D. Gardner, Jr., grandson, William F. Gardner, and great-grandson, Robert T. Gardner, also became lawyers. Gardner was a Baptist.

Gardner died in a hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, at the age of 76, following a period of ill health, and six months after the death of his wife.