Elaine Folk Marshall is an American attorney and politician who has served as the North Carolina Secretary of State since 1997. A member of the Democratic Party,she is the first woman to be elected to statewide office in North Carolina. Marshall was also the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate seat then held by Republican Richard Burr in the 2010 election. In 2020,Marshall was re-elected to a seventh term as North Carolina Secretary of State. In 2024,she was reelected to an eighth term winning with 51 percent of the vote.
Isaac Beverly Lake Jr. was an American jurist and politician,who served as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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.
Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. is an American lawyer,formerly an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Linda M. McGee 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."
J. Douglas McCullough is an American lawyer and former judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. McCullough retired in 2017.
Robin Elizabeth Hudson is an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Barbara Jackson is an American attorney and jurist who was elected in 2010 to an eight-year term on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Henry E. Frye is an American judge and politician who served as the first African-American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Franklin Edward Freeman Jr. is a lawyer and public official in North Carolina,who retired from government service in 2009 as Senior Assistant for Governmental Affairs to Governor Mike Easley. He worked for Easley during the entirety of his two terms (2001–2009). As of 2009,Freeman is a partner in the McGuireWoods law firm and vice president of McGuireWoods Consulting.
Burley Bayard Mitchell Jr. is an American jurist and former Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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 Douglas 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 as well as an associate justice from 2012 to 2019. She was defeated by Paul Martin Newby in 2020. Beasley previously served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a district court judge in Cumberland County,North Carolina.
Cressie H. Thigpen Jr. is a North Carolina lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
One justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and three judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 6,2012,concurrently with the elections for Governor and other offices. North Carolina judicial elections are non-partisan. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. In three of the four races,incumbents were re-elected to their seats,but incumbent Court of Appeals Judge Cressie Thigpen was defeated by Chris Dillon.
Four justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 4,2014,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
Lucy Noble Inman was 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.
One justice 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 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
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.
Two justices of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and four judges of the fifteen-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2022,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were conducted on a partisan basis.
