Judge Patrick Pinkston has seen every courtroom in Elmore County as an attorney and judge. He also sees the need to add courtrooms and administrative space in Elmore County.

Pinkston is now the presiding circuit court judge of the 19th Judicial Circuit that includes Elmore, Autauga and Chilton counties. He was on the bench for more than a decade as an Elmore County district judge. He got his start as an attorney in 1989 in the courtroom of the Elmore County Historic Courthouse.