North Carolina Court of Appeals

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 groups of three. Judges serve eight-year terms and are elected in statewide non-partisan elections.

The Court of Appeals was created by the state legislature 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."

Current judges

Name	Born	Joined	Term Ends	Mandatory Retirement	Law School Attended
John C. Martin, Chief Judge	1943	1985-88, 1993	2016	Nov. 9, 2015	Wake Forest University School of Law
Cheri Beasley	1966	1999	2014		University of Tennessee College of Law
Wanda G. Bryant	1956	2001-02, 2005	2012	June 26, 2028	North Carolina Central School of Law
Ann Maria Calabria	1947	2003	2018	Oct. 31, 2019	Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
Rick Elmore		2003	2018		North Carolina Central School of Law
Sam J. Ervin, IV	1955	2009	2016	Nov. 18, 2027	Harvard Law School
Martha A. Geer	1958	2003	2018	Nov. 24, 2030	University of North Carolina School of Law
Robert C. Hunter	1944	1998	2014	Jan. 14, 2016	University of North Carolina School of Law
Robert N. Hunter, Jr.	1947	2009	2016	March 30, 2019	University of North Carolina School of Law
Douglas McCullough		2001-08, 2011	2018		University of South Carolina School of Law
Linda M. McGee	1949	1995	2012	Sept. 20, 2021	University of North Carolina School of Law
Sanford L. Steelman, Jr.	1951	2003	2018	Sept. 11, 2023	University of North Carolina School of Law
Linda Stephens		2006	2016		University of North Carolina School of Law
Donna Stroud	1964	2007	2014		Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
Cressie Thigpen	1946	2010	2012	Aug. 12, 2018	Rutgers School of Law

Former judges

• Barbara Jackson
• James A. Wynn, Jr.
• John M. Tyson
• John S. Arrowood
• Eric L. Levinson
• Hugh Brown Campbell, Jr.
• Robin E. Hudson
• Patricia Timmons-Goodson
• 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
• Burley Mitchell
• Clifton E. Johnson
• Willis Whichard
• Charles Becton
• Richard Erwin
• Allyson Kay Duncan
• 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

See also

• North Carolina Supreme Court

External links

• Official site