Jefferson County Circuit Judge Tracie Todd, twice suspended from the bench since 2021 and convicted last year of violating judicial ethics, has resigned.

The Alabama Administrative Office of Courts on Tuesday confirmed Todd’s resignation, which will become effective Dec. 6. No additional information has been released.

Efforts to reach Todd for comment weren’t immediately successful. Efforts to reach Jefferson County presiding Judge Elisabeth French were also not immediately successful.

Todd is a criminal court trial judge. She was elected in 2012 and reelected without opposition in 2018.

The Alabama Court of the Judiciary in October 2022, following a trial, found Todd guilty on one charge of violating judicial ethics and suspended her without pay for 120 days. Todd returned to the bench in early 2023.

Todd was first suspended from the bench in 2021 after scathing 100-plus page complaint filed against her by the Judicial Inquiry Commission. She was charged with multiple incidents of abuse of judicial power and abandonment of the judicial role of detachment and neutrality.

On Dec. 3, 2021, after a trial, the COJ convicted Todd of violating canons of judicial ethics by disregarding the rulings of appellate courts, making inappropriate statements that the judiciary in Alabama is corrupted by politics, inserting issues into her rulings not raised by the parties in her court, abandoning the role of a neutral arbiter to become an advocate for defendants and for her own rulings and opinions, and questioning an attorney under oath in her courtroom about whether he gave a financial contribution to her opponent’s political campaign in 2012.

She was ordered to work for 90 days without pay.

Todd was suspended again in March of 2022 on new complaints that she didn’t follow the orders of the Alabama Court of the Judiciary.

Testimony at the 2022 COJ trial in Montgomery showed that Todd was in Chicago, where her husband lives, on Dec. 6, 2021, and did not return to Alabama until about Feb. 23, 2022, meaning that she was not in Alabama for almost 80 days of the 90 days she was ordered to work without pay.

Todd, who testified in her defense, claimed that she did return to work as ordered despite being in Chicago, communicating with her staff, issuing orders through her judicial assistant, and preparing to hear cases. Todd said illness and illnesses in her family delayed her return to Alabama.

The COJ did not convict Todd on a second charge, that she made false and misleading statements about her compliance with the order to return to work. The COJ said a third charge, that Todd failed to make provisions for her cases while she claimed to be ill, was redundant to the first charge.