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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. Under the terms of the state constitution, the court's judges were elected by the North Carolina General Assembly and served ...
New "District Courts" were proposed to succeed the recorder's courts and justice of the peace courts as standard local trial courts. [6][7] Through the late 1950s and 1960s, North Carolina's judicial system was overhauled by legislation and constitutional amendment. [4][5] District Courts were phased-in beginning in December 1966 in 23 counties.
Robert C. Ervin (born 1960) is a North Carolina Superior Court judge who has presided over numerous high-profile cases. He is the grandson of U.S. Senator Sam J. Ervin, the son of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Samuel James Ervin III and the brother of state Supreme Court Justice Sam J. Ervin IV.
Courts of North Carolina. 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 ...
Catherine Eagles. Catherine Diane Caldwell Eagles (born August 30, 1958) is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and a former Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina. She is the first female judge to serve in the Middle District.
May 31, 2027. The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices has ...
The North Carolina Supreme Court met in the Old Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton in 2004, and again in 2013. In 2015, Governor McCrory signed Senate Bill 161 into law (S.L. 2015–89), allowing the court to meet in Morganton once again, "…the court shall meet in the Old Burke County Courthouse, the location of summer sessions of the ...
Juvenile jurisdiction issues originated in 1919, "when fourteen- and fifteen-year-olds initially charged in juvenile court with felonies could be transferred to superior court. Since that time, transfer to adult court has been mandatory for some of the state's most serious felonies. In 1994, the minimum age of transfer was reduced from fourteen ...