One justice of the seven-member

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and three judges of the 15-member

North Carolina Court of Appeals The North Carolina Court of Appeals (in case citation, N.C. Ct. App.) is the only intermediate appellate court in the state of North Carolina. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating panels of three. The Court of Appeals was created ...

were elected by

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voters on November 6, 2018, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were partisan for the first time since the elections of 2002. A law passed by the

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in 2017 cancelled

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for judicial elections in 2018 only, meaning that an unlimited number of candidates from any party could run in the general election. Democrats won all four races in November 2018, representing an increase of one Democrat on the Supreme Court and an increase of two Democrats on the Court of Appeals (with one Democrat elected to the seat he already held by appointment).

Supreme Court Seat 1 (Jackson seat)

The seat held by Justice

Barbara Jackson Barbara Jackson (born December 25, 1961) is an American attorney and jurist who was elected in 2010 to an eight-year term on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jackson moved to Wake County at the age of 3 and graduated Athens Drive High School in ...

was on the 2018 ballot.

Candidates

*Christopher Anglin (Republican), managing partner at Anglin Law Firm *

Anita Earls Anita Earls (born February 20, 1960) is an African-American civil rights Lawyer, attorney, educator and Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Supreme Court of North Carolina. She previously served as the Executive Director of the ...

(Democratic), former executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, and former member of the North Carolina State Board of Elections *

(Republican), incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina

Polling

Results

Court of Appeals Seat 1 (Arrowood seat)

The seat held by Judge John S. Arrowood was on the 2018 ballot. Arrowood was appointed to the seat in 2017 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge

Douglas McCullough J. Douglas McCullough is an American lawyer and former judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. McCullough retired in 2017. Education and career After earning a history degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967 and a ...

Candidates

* John S. Arrowood (Democrat), incumbent Judge *Andrew Heath (Republican),

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judge and budget director under former

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Pat McCrory Patrick Lloyd McCrory (born October 17, 1956) is an American businessman, politician and radio host who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 53rd Mayor o ...

Results

Court of Appeals Seat 2 (Calabria seat)

The seat held by Judge

Ann Marie Calabria Ann Marie Calabria (born October 31, 1947) is an American jurist who served as a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals until her retirement on December 31, 2018. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Calabria studied at Fairleigh Dickinson ...

, a Republican, was on the 2018 ballot. Calabria did not run for reelection.

Candidates

*Jefferson Griffin (Republican),

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district court judge * Toby Hampson (Democratic), attorney at Wyrick, Robbins, Yates & Ponton, LLP *Sandra Ray (Republican),

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district court judge

Results

Court of Appeals Seat 3 (Elmore seat)

The seat held by Judge

Rick Elmore Rick Elmore is an American judge who previously served as a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Elmore earned his undergraduate degree in 1974 from Guilford College in North Carolina, and worked for the North Carolina Department of Corr ...

, a Republican, was on the 2018 ballot. Elmore announced in 2017 that he would not seek a third term.

Candidates

* Allegra Collins (Democratic), law professor at Campbell University School of Law *Chuck Kitchen (Republican), private practice attorney *Michael Monaco (Libertarian), attorney and partner at Monaco & Roberts, PLLC

Results

Notes

References

External links

2018 Judicial Voter Guide from State Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement
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