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The Superior Court is North Carolina's oldest court. [1] It was established by a law passed on November 15, 1777, which created a "Superior Court" system with six districts, with its main duty to serve as a trial court.
Courts of North Carolina include: State courts of North Carolina. North Carolina Supreme Court [1] North Carolina Court of Appeals [2] North Carolina Superior Court (46 districts) [3] North Carolina District Courts (45 districts) [4] Federal courts located in North Carolina. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North ...
Pauline Harrison: [53] First female magistrate in Buncombe County, North Carolina; Jacqueline Grant: [54] First African American female to serve as a resident Superior Court judge in Buncombe County, North Carolina (2021). She was the first African American female to serve as the President of the Buncombe Judicial Bar (2014-2015).
The first one was the Court of Conference, established in 1799, consisting of several North Carolina Superior Court judges sitting en banc twice each year to review appeals from their courts. In 1805, the General Assembly renamed the institution the "Supreme Court", but left its composition the same.
In the state court system, North Carolina's trial-level courts are the District Court and Superior Court, although the Superior Court hears some appeals from the District Court. The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court in the state, while the Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court.
Michael Rivers Morgan (born October 22, 1955) [1] [2] is a judge from the state of North Carolina. Morgan served for more than six years as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Previously, he served as a judge on the 3rd division of North Carolina Superior Court for Judicial Circuit 10B, which covers Wake County.
First African American male (North Carolina Supreme Court): Henry Frye in 1983 [13] [14] First African American male (Senior Resident; Superior Court): Cy A. Grant Sr. in 1988 [15] First Native American male (superior court): Sandy Dexter Brooks (1976) in 1989 [16] [17] First openly gay male: Ray Warren around 1998 [18] [19]
To begin the process, North Carolina General Statute § 9-1 requires that (no later than July 1, 1967), each county shall appoint a jury commission of three members. [3] One member of the commission shall be appointed by the senior regular resident superior court judge, one member by the clerk of superior court, and one member by the board of county commissioners.