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

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 2011 / Former Justice

Barbara Jackson

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Barbara Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2011. She previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1961 · age 65
Tenure: 2011 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2005	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
2011	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Jackson authored 553 published opinions for the court (2005–2018), plus 21 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Krawiec v. Manly (210 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. 209 of these were attributed to Jackson 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
2018	Krawiec v. Manly†	811 S.E.2d 542	210
2016	In re D.L.W.†	368 N.C. 835	197
2008	Bartlett Milling Co., LP v. Walnut Grove Auction and Realty Co., Inc.	665 S.E.2d 478	68
2012	Lanvale Properties, LLC v. County of Cabarrus†	366 N.C. 142	57
2012	State v. Hunt	722 S.E.2d 484	57
2013	White v. Trew, 366 NC 360†	366 N.C. 360	56
2008	State v. Campbell	656 S.E.2d 721	49
2008	State v. Marshall	656 S.E.2d 709	49
2009	Hoke County Board of Education v. State	679 S.E.2d 512	46
2017	In re M.A.W.†	804 S.E.2d 513	44
2013	Dickson v. Rucho, 366 NC 332†	366 N.C. 332	40
2008	State v. Webber	660 S.E.2d 621	40
2014	State v. Jones†	367 N.C. 299	38
2006	In re S.R.S.†	636 S.E.2d 277	38
2012	State v. Salinas†	366 N.C. 119	35

Showing the 15 most-cited of 602 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 Supreme Court of North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Barbara Jackson on?: Barbara Jackson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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