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Sarah Parker is an American judge who served as the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from February 2006 until August 2014.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals 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 by the North Carolina General Assembly 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 North Carolina Supreme Court."
John Charles Martin is an American attorney, who retired as a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals on August 1, 2014.
Robert Carl "Bob" Hunter is an American jurist, who served as a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 1998 through 2014.
John Marsh Tyson is an American jurist and government official, who currently serves as a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He also previously served on the court from 2001 to 2009.
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.
Ann Marie Calabria is an American jurist who served as a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals until her retirement on December 31, 2018.
Sanford L. Steelman Jr. is an American judge, who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from January 2003 until his retirement in June 2015.
Martha A. Geer is an American attorney and jurist who served as a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Alan Z. Thornburg is an American lawyer and jurist, formerly a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
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.
J. Rich Leonard is the dean of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law since July 2013. He previously served as a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina and was chief judge from 1998 until 2005. Judge Leonard was also a former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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.
William Byrd Traxler Jr. is an American jurist who currently serves as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
One justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 2, 2010, on the same day as the U.S. Senate election, U.S. House elections, and other state-level elections. North Carolina judicial elections are non-partisan. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. All incumbent judges and justices who sought re-election won their respective races, except for Judge Cressie Thigpen of the Court of Appeals, who had been appointed shortly before the election and lost North Carolina's first statewide election to use Instant-runoff voting.
Albert Diaz is a 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.
Several justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court and judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected to eight-year terms by North Carolina voters on November 5, 2002. Party primary elections were held on Sept. 10. This was the last year in which statewide judicial elections were partisan.
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.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and three judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina 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 North Carolina General Assembly in 2017 cancelled primary elections for judicial elections in 2018 only, meaning that an unlimited number of candidates from any party could run in the general election.
Tobias "Toby" Hampson is an attorney and judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
