Lists of NC Supreme Court Justices
Elected or appointed beginning in the 1800s
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Name |
Years as Associate Justice |
Years as Chief Justice |
|---|---|---|
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None |
1819 - 1829 (First Chief Justice) |
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1819-1832 |
None |
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1819-1829 |
1829-1833 |
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1829 |
None |
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1829-1833, 1859 |
1833-1852 |
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1832-1848 |
None |
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1833-1844 |
None |
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1844-1852 |
1852-1858 |
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1849-1858 |
1859-1878 |
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1848 |
None |
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1859-1865 |
None |
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1865-1879 |
None |
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1868-1879 |
None |
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1868-1876 |
None |
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1868-1872 |
None |
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1871-1873 |
None |
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1873-1879 |
None |
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1879-1879 |
1895-1900 |
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1879-1881 |
None |
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1879-1887 |
None |
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1878 |
1879-1889 |
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1881-1883 |
None |
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1883-1889 |
1889-1892 |
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1887-1892 |
None |
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1889-1892 |
1892-1895 |
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Alphonso C. Avery |
1889-1897 |
None |
|
Walter M. Clark |
1892-1903 |
1903-1924 |
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Armistead Burwell |
1892-1895 |
None |
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1892-1895 |
None |
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1895-1901 |
1901-1903 |
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1895-1905 |
None |
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1897-1905 |
None |
Elected or appointed beginning in the 1900s
|
Name |
Years as Associate Justice |
Years as Chief Justice |
|---|---|---|
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1901-1903 |
None |
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1903-1923 |
None |
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1903-1923 |
None |
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1905-1920 |
None |
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1905-1924 |
1924-1925 |
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1909-1911 |
None |
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1911-1921 |
None |
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William J. Adams |
1921-1934 |
None |
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1921-1925 |
1925-1951 |
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1923-1942 |
None |
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1924-1938 |
None |
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Lycurgus R. Varser |
1925 |
None |
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Willis J. Brodgen |
1926-1935 |
None |
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Michael Schenk |
1934-1948 |
None |
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William A. Devin |
1935-1951 |
1951-1954 |
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Maurice V. Barnhill |
1937-1954 |
1954-1956 |
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1937-1956 |
1956-1962 |
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Aaron A. F. Seawell |
1938-1945 |
None |
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1942-1962 |
1962-1966 |
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1948-1954 |
None |
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Murray G. James |
1950 |
None |
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1950-1959 |
None |
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Itimous T. Valentine |
1951-1952 |
None |
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1952-1966 |
1966-1969 |
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William H. Bobbitt |
1954-1969 |
1969-1975 |
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Carlisle W. Higgins |
1954-1975 |
None |
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William Blount Rodman, Jr. |
1956-1965 |
None |
|
1959-1966 |
None |
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1962-1974 |
1974-1991 |
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I. Beverly Lake, Sr. |
1965-1978 |
None |
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J. Will Pless |
1966-1968 |
None |
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Joseph Branch |
1966-1979 |
1980-1986 |
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J. Frank Huskins |
1968-1982 |
None |
|
1969-1978 |
None |
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James G. Exum |
1975-1986 |
1986-1994 |
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J. William Copeland |
1975-1984 |
None |
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David M. Britt |
1978-1982 |
None |
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Walter E. Brock |
1979-1980 |
None |
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J. Phil Carlton |
1979-1983 |
None |
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Louis B. Meyer |
1981-1995 |
None |
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Burley Mitchell |
1982-1995 |
1995-1999 |
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Henry Frye |
1983-1999 |
1999-2000 |
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Earl W. Vaughn |
1985 |
None |
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Rhoda Billings |
1985-1986 |
1986 |
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Robert R. Browning |
1986 (appointed) |
None |
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Francis Iredell Parker |
1986 |
None |
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John Webb |
1986-1998 |
None |
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Willis P. Whichard |
1986-1998 |
None |
|
Isaac Beverly Lake, Jr. |
1992, 1995-2001 |
2001-2006 |
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Sarah Parker |
1993-2006 |
2006-2014 |
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Robert F. Orr |
1995-2004 |
None |
|
Mark D. Martin |
1998-2014 |
2015-2019 |
|
James Wynn |
1998 |
None |
|
Franklin Edward Freeman, Jr. |
1999-2001 |
None |
Elected or appointed beginning in the 2000s
|
Name |
Years as Associate Justice |
Years as Chief Justice |
|---|---|---|
|
Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. |
2001-2016 |
None |
|
George Kenneth Butterfield, Jr. |
2001-2002 |
None |
|
Edward Brady |
2003-2011 |
None |
|
Paul Martin Newby |
2004-2021 |
2021-present |
|
Patricia Timmons-Goodson |
2006-2012 |
None |
|
Robin H. Hudson |
2007-2022 |
None |
|
Barbara Jackson |
2011-2018 |
None |
|
Cheri Beasley |
2012-2019 |
2019-2021 |
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Samuel James Ervin, IV |
2015-2022 |
None |
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Michael Morgan |
2017-2023 |
None |
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Anita Earls |
2019-present |
None |
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Tamara P. Barringer |
2021-present |
None |
|
Phil Berger, Jr. |
2021-present |
None |
|
Trey Allen |
2023-present |
None |
|
Richard Dietz |
2023-present |
None |
|
Allison Riggs |
2023-present |
None |
Citation
Agan, Kelly and Christine Alston. "Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court." NCpedia. State Library of NC. March 2026. https://www.ncpedia.org/article/justices-north-carolina-supreme-court.