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 1990 / Served to 1990

Allyson Kay Duncan

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Allyson Kay Duncan was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1990. She earned a law degree from Duke University in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1990–1990
Education: Hampton 1972 · Duke

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Hampton University	B.A.	1972
Duke University	J.D.	1975

Judicial Record

In our data, Duncan authored 5 published opinions for the court (1990), plus 3 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Raritan River Steel Co. v. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland (14 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. 9 of these were attributed to Duncan 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
1990	Raritan River Steel Co. v. Cherry, Bekaert & Holland· Dissent†	398 S.E.2d 889	14
1990	In Re the Adoption of P. E. P.· Dissent†	395 S.E.2d 133	5
1990	State v. Lopez†	101 N.C. App. 217	2
1990	BarclaysAmerican/Leasing, Inc. v. North Carolina Insurance Guaranty Ass'n· Concurrence†	99 N.C. App. 290	2
1990	Sippe v. Sippe†	101 N.C. App. 194	1
1990	State v. Moore· Dissent†	100 N.C. App. 217	1
1990	Swilling v. Swilling†	99 N.C. App. 551	1
1990	American Motorists Insurance v. Avnet, Inc.†	98 N.C. App. 385	1
1990	Ragan v. County of Alamance†	98 N.C. App. 636	0

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 Allyson Kay Duncan on?: Allyson Kay Duncan was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

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Joined the court in 1990. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).