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 1969 / Served to 1978

Dan K. Moore

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Dan K. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1906–1986
Tenure: 1969–1978 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 451 published opinions for the court (1804–1978), plus 3 dissents. Most cited: Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation (467 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. 11 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1971	Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation	180 S.E.2d 823	467
1977	Dillon v. Numismatic Funding Corp.	231 S.E.2d 629	222
1975	Hardy v. Toler	218 S.E.2d 342	187
1973	King v. Grindstaff	200 S.E.2d 799	185
1977	Gallimore v. Marilyn's Shoes	233 S.E.2d 529	152
1970	State v. Sparrow	173 S.E.2d 897	152
1978	Matter of Banks	244 S.E.2d 386	149
1959	State v. Grundler	111 S.E.2d 1	144
1961	State v. Faust	118 S.E.2d 769	136
1978	State v. Thomas	250 S.E.2d 204	125
1978	State v. Joyner	243 S.E.2d 367	120
1959	Barnes v. North Carolina State Highway Commission	109 S.E.2d 219	118
1962	State v. Pope	126 S.E.2d 126	111
1974	State v. Noell	202 S.E.2d 750	109
1974	State v. Camp	209 S.E.2d 754	108

Showing the 15 most-cited of 455 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 Dan K. Moore on?: Dan K. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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9 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).