Mark D. Martin is an American jurist who served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina from 2014 through 2019. He was appointed by North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory to become Chief Justice on September 1,2014 upon the retirement of Sarah Parker. Martin was already running for the seat in the 2014 general election.
Roy Asberry Cooper III is an American attorney and politician serving since 2017 as the 75th governor of North Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 49th attorney general of North Carolina from 2001 to 2017 and in the North Carolina General Assembly in both the House of Representatives and Senate from 1987 to 2001.
The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s,it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice,although the number of justices has varied. The primary function of the Supreme Court is to decide questions of law that have arisen in the lower courts and before state administrative agencies.
Wanda G. Bryant is an American judge,who retired as an associate judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals at the end of 2020.
Eric L. Levinson is an American jurist,lawyer,and diplomat. He served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Superior Court. He also was the Justice Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
The North Carolina Cabinet is the group of unelected heads of the executive departments of the Government of North Carolina. It is separate and distinct from the North Carolina Council of State,the members of which are elected statewide,and which makes up the rest of the executive leadership of the government. All cabinet secretaries are appointed by the governor.
Rives Kistler is an American attorney and judge in the state of Oregon. After college and law school on the East Coast,he moved to Oregon where he worked in private practice before joining the Oregon Department of Justice. Kistler then joined the Oregon Court of Appeals before appointment to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003.
Allyson Kay Duncan 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.
Burley Bayard Mitchell Jr. 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 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John S. Arrowood is an American attorney and judge. In April 2017,Arrowood was appointed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals by Governor Roy Cooper,to replace Judge Doug McCullough,a Republican who resigned one month before he would have reached the mandatory retirement age.
Cheri Lynn Beasley 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 previously served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a district court judge in Cumberland County,North Carolina.
James Columcille Dever III is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
Albert Diaz is the chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Diaz is the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Fourth Circuit. Prior to his appointment to the Court of Appeals,Diaz was a North Carolina state superior court judge and an appellate judge for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals.
J. Phil Carlton was born on January 14,1938,in Rocky Mount,North Carolina. He attended South Edgecombe High School in Pinetops,North Carolina,where he served as student body president. Carlton received his bachelor's degree from North Carolina State College in 1960. In 1959-60 he served as an assistant campaign manager in the gubernatorial campaign of Terry Sanford. He received his J.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1963. He practiced law in Tarboro,NC from 1963 to 1968 and served as administrative assistant to Federal Judge L. Richardson Preyer in Greensboro,NC in 1964.
Cressie H. Thigpen,Jr. is a North Carolina lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Joseph Robert John Sr. is a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives,having served since 2017. He is a former judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He served on that court from 1992 until 2000. Previously,he had been a state superior court and state district court judge,based in Greensboro. He had also been a prosecutor and practiced at the firm of Pell,Pell,Weston &John.
The government of North Carolina is divided into three branches:executive,legislative,and judicial. These consist of the Council of State,the bicameral legislature,and the state court system. The Constitution of North Carolina delineates the structure and function of the state government.
Marcia Helen Morey is an American politician,former judge and former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She competed in the preliminary heats of the women's 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter breaststroke events,recording times of 1:17.30 and 2:41.85,respectively. Morey has represented the 30th district in the North Carolina House of Representatives since her initial appointment in 2017. She has been re-elected to the seat twice,most recently in 2020.
Mark Allen Davis 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 serves as Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases on the North Carolina Business Court.
Three justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 3,2020,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were conducted on a partisan basis.
