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 1979 / Served to 1984

Cecil J. Hill

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Cecil J. Hill was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1979. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1979–1984 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1979	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hill authored 312 published opinions for the court (1979–1984), plus 11 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Cameron v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Inc. (82 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. 161 of these were attributed to Hill 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
1982	Cameron v. New Hanover Memorial Hospital, Inc.	293 S.E.2d 901	82
1983	Roper v. J. P. Stevens & Co.	308 S.E.2d 485	73
1982	In Re APA	296 S.E.2d 811	51
1981	Lowery v. Newton	278 S.E.2d 566	41
1981	Edwards v. Akion· Dissent†	279 S.E.2d 894	40
1983	Libby Hill Seafood Restaurants, Inc. v. Owens	303 S.E.2d 565	38
1982	Tallent v. Blake	291 S.E.2d 336	38
1981	News & Observer Publishing Co. v. Wake County Hospital System, Inc.	284 S.E.2d 542	37
1980	State v. Mapp	264 S.E.2d 348	27
1984	Doby v. Lowder	324 S.E.2d 26	25
1980	Chilton v. Bowman Gray School of Medicine	262 S.E.2d 347	25
1984	Bluffs, Inc. v. Wysocki	314 S.E.2d 291	24
1984	Azzolino v. Dingfelder	322 S.E.2d 567	22
1983	Smithwick v. Frame	303 S.E.2d 217	22
1983	Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina v. Odell Associates, Inc.	301 S.E.2d 459	21

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 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 Cecil J. Hill on?: Cecil J. Hill was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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5 years 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).