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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
Supreme Court elections have been a pain point for North Carolina Democrats in recent election cycles. Prior to the 2020 election, Democrats boasted a 6-1 majority on the state’s highest court.
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
The lone North Carolina Supreme Court race remained too close to call Friday morning, with Republican Jefferson Griffin leading Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs by just 0.06% or 3,649 votes.
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]