DuBose started her legal career as a
law clerk to former Judge
Peter Beer of the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1989 to 1990. In 1990, DuBose joined the US Attorney's Office as an
assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of Alabama from 1990 to 1993 before being appointed Assistant district attorney in the
Covington County District Attorney's Office in 1994. In 1994, DuBose was appointed by Governor
Jim Folsom Jr. as a deputy attorney general in the Alabama Attorney General's Office from 1994 to 1996 before serving as chief counsel for Alabama U.S. Senator
Jeff Sessions from 1997 to 1999.
Federal judicial service On the unanimous recommendation of Senators Jeff Sessions and
Richard Shelby, DuBose was nominated by President
George W. Bush on September 28, 2005 to a seat vacated by
Charles Randolph Butler Jr. DuBose was confirmed by the Senate on December 21, 2005 and received her commission on December 27, 2005. She served as chief judge from 2017 to 2021. ==References==