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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina / Joined 2007 / Active

Donna S. Stroud

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Donna S. Stroud is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, serving since 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1964 · age 62
Tenure: Since 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Campbell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Stroud authored 759 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 17 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Smith (462 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. 425 of these were attributed to Stroud 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
2007	State v. Smith	650 S.E.2d 29	462
2007	State v. Bagley	644 S.E.2d 615	94
2015	In re: J.H.†	780 S.E.2d 228	64
2008	Bluebird Corp. v. Aubin	657 S.E.2d 55	63
2007	Griffith v. Glen Wood Co., Inc.	646 S.E.2d 550	56
2007	In re C.W.†	641 S.E.2d 725	56
2009	State v. Kilby	679 S.E.2d 430	55
2007	Parker v. Glosson	641 S.E.2d 735	51
2007	State v. Gobal	651 S.E.2d 279	49
2008	Holleman v. Aiken	668 S.E.2d 579	48
2007	Sturgill v. Ashe Memorial Hospital, Inc.	652 S.E.2d 302	48
2007	Duval v. OM HOSPITALITY, LLC	651 S.E.2d 261	45
2012	M Series Rebuild, LLC v. Town of Mount Pleasant†	222 N.C. App. 59	43
2009	Hensey v. Hennessy	685 S.E.2d 541	41
2012	Suntrust Bank v. Bryant/Sutphin Properties, LLC†	222 N.C. App. 821	39

Showing the 15 most-cited of 799 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 is Donna S. Stroud on?: Donna S. Stroud is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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19 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).