Drayton Nabers is a lawyer with the Birmingham, Alabama firm of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, P.C and is a former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Nabers received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1962 and a law degree from Yale Law School in 1965. After graduating from Yale, Nabers served as a Law Clerk for U. S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and went on to practice law in Birmingham.

In 1979, Nabers left private practice to join Protective Life Corporation, rising to the position of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. He retired from Protective Life in 2002 and was appointed Finance Director for the State of Alabama.

Nabers is a member of the Alabama Academy of Honor, the Birmingham Business Hall of Fame and has been chairman of the American Council of Life Insurers, Leadership Birmingham, United Way of Central Alabama and Prison Fellowship and Re-Entry Ministries. He has served as Director of Energen Corporation, Alabama National BanCorporation and National Bank of Commerce.

He is currently Chairman of Cornerstone Schools of Alabama (an innercity, faith-based,  private school),Chairman, District 7, Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, and serves on the Boards of ProAssurance Corporation and Infinity Property and Casualty Company.

Nabers is a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Alabama and serves as an Adjunct Instructor at Beeson Divinity School at Samford University. Nabers is married to the former Fairfax Virginia Smathers; they have three children and six grandchildren.

Nabers’ first book, The Case for Character, was published in 2006