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 1998 / Served to 2000

Clarence E. Horton Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Clarence E. Horton Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1998–2000 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Horton authored 118 published opinions for the court (1998–2001), plus 7 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc. (154 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. 47 of these were attributed to Horton 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
2000	Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc.	537 S.E.2d 248	154
1999	In Re McLean	521 S.E.2d 121	116
2000	In Re Brim	535 S.E.2d 367	62
2001	McCallum v. North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service of N.C. Carolina State University	542 S.E.2d 227	61
2000	Shah v. Howard Johnson	535 S.E.2d 577	56
2001	Evans v. United Services Automobile Ass'n	541 S.E.2d 782	54
1999	Pittman v. International Paper Co.	510 S.E.2d 705	49
1998	O'Brien v. O'Brien	508 S.E.2d 300	45
2000	Tomika Investments, Inc. v. MacEdonia True Vine Pentecostal Holiness Church of God, Inc.	524 S.E.2d 591	40
2000	London v. Snak Time Catering, Inc.	525 S.E.2d 203	38
1999	Washington v. Horton	513 S.E.2d 331	36
1998	Boyd v. Drum	501 S.E.2d 91	36
2000	State v. Hanton	540 S.E.2d 376	33
2000	Wall v. Wall	536 S.E.2d 647	28
2000	State v. Griffin	525 S.E.2d 793	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 128 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 Clarence E. Horton Jr. on?: Clarence E. Horton Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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2 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).