Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Levinson was a North Carolina prosecutor and an N.C. District and Family Court Judge before his election to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2002. In 2007, Levinson resigned from the Court of Appeals, accepting a Bush administration appointment as the Justice Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq with the United States Department ...
North Carolina Supreme Court Candidates. The North Carolina Supreme Court, the highest court in the state, takes up appealed cases from lower state courts, having the final say on matters.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and three judges of the fifteen-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 5, 2024, concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years. These elections were conducted on a partisan basis.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals was created as an intermediate appellate court in 1967 in part to help ease the workload of the Supreme Court. [3] The General Assembly made Supreme Court elections non-partisan starting with the 2004 elections, but later made them partisan again after the 2016 elections. [4]
The outcome of this race will determine whether the state’s highest court maintains a 5-2 Republican majority, or drops to a single Democrat on a court dominated by the GOP.
North Carolina 3 Richard Dietz February 1, 1977 (age 47) January 1, 2023: 2030 February 28, 2053: Republican: Wake Forest 5 Trey Allen November 20, 1974 (age 50) January 1, 2023: 2030 November 30, 2050: Republican: North Carolina 6 Allison Riggs: 1980 or 1981 (age 43–44) September 11, 2023: 2024 May 31, 2057: Democratic: University of Florida
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a Democrat, and N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Jefferson Griffin, a Republican, face each other in the 2024 election for Supreme Court.