Mo Brooks built a solid “tough-on-crime” reputation in the Tuscaloosa District Attorney’s office. While there, he obtained guilty verdicts in every one of the 20+ jury trials he prosecuted. Mo also organized and managed the grand jury.

Mo Brooks left the Tuscaloosa District Attorney’s office in 1980 to return to Huntsville as a law clerk for presiding Circuit Court Judge John David Snodgrass.
In 1982, in an election in which 25% of the voting machines (11 of 45) were rigged to prevent citizens from voting for Mo Brooks, Mo was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives and became one of eleven Republican legislators (out of 140 total) and the only elected Republican legislator north of Birmingham.
Mo Brooks was reelected to the Alabama House in 1983, 1986 and 1990. While in the legislature, Mo was elected Republican House Caucus Chairman three times, was ranked #1 (out of 140 legislators) by the Alabama Taxpayers’ Defense Fund in the fight to protect family incomes from higher taxes, was ranked in the top 20% by Alabama Alliance of Business & Industry on pro-jobs, tort reform and free enterprise issues, and was recognized as one of the legislature’s most effective legislators by Alabama Magazine.

In 1991, Mo Brooks was appointed Madison County District Attorney. In 1992, Mo lost to popular Democrat Tim Morgan in his bid to become Madison County’s first elected Republican District Attorney since Confederate soldiers’ voting rights were restored.

In 1996, Mo Brooks ran for the Madison County Commission and unseated an 8-year incumbent Republican. Mo Brooks was reelected to the Commission in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

During every year except when he was serving as a prosecutor or court clerk, Mo Brooks held a second job in private practice. Mo Brooks maintains a national practice that specializes in commercial litigation (business versus business).

In 1995-1996, Mo Brooks was appointed special assistant attorney general for then Attorney General Jeff Sessions and, from 1996-2002, was appointed special assistant attorney general for then Attorney General Bill Pryor.

In 1990, before becoming Madison County District Attorney, Mo Brooks “pinch-hit” as a fill-in radio talk show host for WVNN until the new host arrived . . . a skinny kid named Sean Hannity.