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 2003 / Served to 2011

Edward Thomas Brady

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Edward Thomas Brady was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2003. He previously served on the Superior Court of California, County of San Benito. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 2003–2011 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Superior Court of California, County of San Benito	–	–
2003	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Brady authored 110 published opinions for the court (2003–2010), plus 11 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Williams (457 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. 52 of these were attributed to Brady 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
2008	State v. Williams	669 S.E.2d 290	457
2004	State v. Garcia	597 S.E.2d 724	204
2004	Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp.	594 S.E.2d 1	197
2005	State v. Allen	615 S.E.2d 256	161
2006	State v. Allen	626 S.E.2d 271	160
2003	State v. Hunt	582 S.E.2d 593	140
2003	Shipman v. Shipman	586 S.E.2d 250	131
2004	State v. Jones	598 S.E.2d 125	119
2007	Harris v. Matthews· Concurrence†	643 S.E.2d 566	116
2004	State v. Thompson	604 S.E.2d 850	115
2009	State v. Locklear· Dissent†	681 S.E.2d 293	114
2009	State v. Miller· Dissent†	678 S.E.2d 592	113
2006	Diaz v. Division of Social Services	628 S.E.2d 1	113
2008	State v. Styles· Dissent†	665 S.E.2d 438	112
2005	State v. Chapman	611 S.E.2d 794	112

Showing the 15 most-cited of 131 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 Edward Thomas Brady on?: Edward Thomas Brady was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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8 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).