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in the state of

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. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating panels of three. The Court of Appeals was created by the

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in 1967 after voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1965 which "authorized the creation of an intermediate court of appeals to relieve pressure on the

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." Judges serve eight-year terms and are elected in statewide elections. The General Assembly made Court of Appeals elections non-partisan starting with the

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, but later made them partisan again after the

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Current judges

There are currently 11 Republicans and 4 Democrats. Notes:

Former judges

A partial list of former judges is listed below:,
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Lucy Inman Lucy Noble Inman is a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and formerly served as a special North Carolina Superior Court judge. She won election to the appellate court in a statewide race on November 4, 2014. Early life Inman is the da ...

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Christopher Brook 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 create ...

Wanda Bryant Wanda G. Bryant (born June 26, 1956) is an American judge, who retired as an associate judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals at the end of 2020. Born in Southport, North Carolina, Bryant earned an undergraduate degree in history and co ...

Linda McGee Linda M. McGee (born September 20, 1949) is an American judge, who retired as the Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals at the end of 2020. McGee retired as the "longest serving Court of Appeals judge in state history." Born in Mari ...

Reuben Young Reuben F. Young is an American lawyer and jurist. He was appointed to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals by Governor Roy Cooper in 2019 but lost reelection and left on December 31, 2020. At the time of his appointment to the court, Youn ...

Mark A. Davis Mark Allen Davis (born October 25, 1966) is an American attorney and jurist. He has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (2019-2020) and previously as a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Davis currently s ...

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 ...

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 Cor ...

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 ...

* Linda Stephens * Wendy Enochs * Martha A. Geer * Sanford L. Steelman Jr. * Lisa Bell * Sam Ervin, IV * Robert C. Hunter * Robert N. Hunter Jr. * John C. Martin *

Cressie Thigpen Cressie H. Thigpen, Jr. is a North Carolina lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Early life and education Thigpen was born August 12, 1946. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from North ...

Cheri Beasley Cheri Lynn Beasley (born February 14, 1966) is an American attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020; she was appointed an associate justice in 2012. Beasley had previously served o ...

* Barbara Jackson * James A. Wynn Jr. * Eric L. Levinson * Hugh Brown Campbell Jr. * Robin E. Hudson * Patricia Timmons-Goodson * Loretta Copeland Biggs * Robert H. Edmunds Jr. * Mark Martin * Sarah Parker * Alan Z. Thornburg * Robert F. Orr * John Webb * Jack L. Cozort * John B. Lewis Jr. * Ralph A. Walker * Sidney S. Eagles Jr. * Joe John * S. Gerald Arnold * Donald L. Smith *

Allyson Kay Duncan Allyson Kay Duncan (born September 5, 1951, in Durham, North Carolina) is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. She was the Fourth Circuit's first female African American judge. Backgro ...

Burley Mitchell Burley Bayard Mitchell Jr. (born December 15, 1940) is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. He received his bachelor's degree from North Carolina State University and his J.D. degree from the Universi ...

* Clifton E. Johnson *

Willis Whichard Willis P. Whichard (born May 24, 1940) is an American lawyer and a prominent figure in North Carolina politics and education. Whichard is the only person in the history of North Carolina who has served in both houses of the state legislature a ...

* Charles Becton * Richard Erwin * Robert M. Martin * Fred Hedrick * James M. Baley Jr. * Walter E. Brock * David M. Britt * James C. Farthing * Naomi E. Morris * Raymond B. Mallard * Hugh B. Campbell * Francis M. Parker * Earl W. Vaughn

References

External links

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Current judges

Former judges

See also

References

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