How do judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina / Joined 2001 / Served to 2002

Albert S. Thomas

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Albert S. Thomas was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2002 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Thomas authored 113 published opinions for the court (2001–2002), plus 5 dissents. Most cited: In Re Anderson (194 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 29 of these were attributed to Thomas by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
2002	In Re Anderson	564 S.E.2d 599	194
2001	In Re Blackburn	543 S.E.2d 906	183
2002	Neuse River Foundation, Inc. v. Smithfield Foods, Inc.	574 S.E.2d 48	158
2002	Becker v. Graber Builders, Inc.	561 S.E.2d 905	65
2002	Paquette v. County of Durham	573 S.E.2d 715	55
2002	In Re Robinson	567 S.E.2d 227	47
2002	Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp.	562 S.E.2d 82	46
2002	In Re Faircloth	571 S.E.2d 65	44
2002	American Woodland Industries, Inc. v. Tolson	574 S.E.2d 55	42
2002	In Re Hardesty	563 S.E.2d 79	42
2001	Vest v. Easley	549 S.E.2d 568	36
2001	Mabrey v. Smith	548 S.E.2d 183	33
2002	State v. Diaz	575 S.E.2d 523	29
2002	State v. Moses	572 S.E.2d 223	29
2002	In Re Matherly	562 S.E.2d 15	29

Showing the 15 most-cited of 118 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Albert S. Thomas on?: Albert S. Thomas was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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1 year on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).