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 1981 / Served to 1990

Charles L. Becton

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Charles L. Becton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1981. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1981–1990 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1981	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Howard University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Becton authored 538 published opinions for the court (1981–1990), plus 58 dissents and 51 concurrences. Most cited: Taylor v. Taylor (89 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. 262 of these were attributed to Becton 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	Taylor v. Taylor	387 S.E.2d 230	89
1984	Estrada v. Jaques	321 S.E.2d 240	78
1988	Henderson v. North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Division of Social Services	372 S.E.2d 887	73
1988	Myrick v. Cooley	371 S.E.2d 492	58
1986	Leiphart v. North Carolina School of the Arts· Concurrence†	342 S.E.2d 914	57
1981	Falls v. Falls	278 S.E.2d 546	57
1989	Lewis v. North Carolina Department of Human Resources	375 S.E.2d 712	55
1981	Loy v. Lorm Corp.	278 S.E.2d 897	51
1987	Hayman v. Ramada Inn, Inc.	357 S.E.2d 394	50
1986	Pinehurst, Inc. v. O'Leary Bros. Realty, Inc.	338 S.E.2d 918	49
1985	Atwell v. Atwell	328 S.E.2d 47	49
1985	North Carolina State Bar v. Sheffield	326 S.E.2d 320	47
1985	Wiggins v. City of Monroe	326 S.E.2d 39	44
1987	Tyson v. L'Eggs Products, Inc.	351 S.E.2d 834	42
1984	Jenkins v. Wheeler	316 S.E.2d 354	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 647 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 Charles L. Becton on?: Charles L. Becton was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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9 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).