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 2008 / Served to 2012

Cheri Beasley

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Cheri Beasley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1966 · age 60
Tenure: 2008–2012 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Judicial Record

In our data, Beasley authored 164 published opinions for the court (2009–2012), plus 8 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Birtha v. Stonemor, North Carolina, LLC (62 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. 63 of these were attributed to Beasley 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
2012	Birtha v. Stonemor, North Carolina, LLC	727 S.E.2d 1	62
2010	Bauer v. Douglas Aquatics, Inc.	698 S.E.2d 757	42
2012	Johnston v. State· Concurrence†	224 N.C. App. 282	35
2010	State v. Curry· Concurrence†	692 S.E.2d 129	27
2010	State v. Hudson	696 S.E.2d 577	25
2010	In re S.N.W.†	204 N.C. App. 556	25
2009	In Re DBJ	678 S.E.2d 778	21
2011	Williamson v. Williamson	719 S.E.2d 625	20
2011	Fairfield Harbour Property Owners Ass'n v. Midsouth Golf, LLC	715 S.E.2d 273	20
2012	Hardin v. York Memorial Park†	221 N.C. App. 317	19
2009	In re T.B.†	200 N.C. App. 739	19
2009	Musi v. Town of Shallotte	684 S.E.2d 892	19
2009	In re D.B.J.†	197 N.C. App. 752	19
2012	Erthal v. May· Concurrence†	223 N.C. App. 373	17
2009	In Re Tb	685 S.E.2d 529	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 186 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 Cheri Beasley on?: Cheri Beasley was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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4 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).