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 1974 / Served to 1982

Edward B. Clark

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Edward B. Clark was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1974. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1974–1982 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1974	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Clark authored 472 published opinions for the court (1975–1982), plus 44 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: Ballenger v. Crowell (90 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. 220 of these were attributed to Clark 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
1978	Ballenger v. Crowell	247 S.E.2d 287	90
1977	Montgomery v. Montgomery	231 S.E.2d 26	82
1979	Rosenthal v. Perkins	257 S.E.2d 63	71
1976	Huss v. Huss	230 S.E.2d 159	62
1980	Orange County v. Department of Transportation	265 S.E.2d 890	61
1976	Travenol Laboratories, Inc. v. Turner	228 S.E.2d 478	59
1979	Holley v. Coggin Pontiac, Inc.	259 S.E.2d 1	54
1979	Northwestern Distributors, Inc. v. N. C. Department of Transportation	255 S.E.2d 203	54
1975	Taylor v. Triangle Porsche-Audi, Inc.	220 S.E.2d 806	43
1976	Crawley v. Southern Devices, Inc.	229 S.E.2d 325	41
1979	Newsome v. Newsome· Dissent†	256 S.E.2d 849	36
1979	Fowler v. Williamson	251 S.E.2d 889	35
1978	In Re the Foreclosure of a Certain Deed of Trust From Watts	247 S.E.2d 427	35
1982	State v. Anderson	292 S.E.2d 163	34
1977	Goodson v. Goodson	231 S.E.2d 178	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 524 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 Edward B. Clark on?: Edward B. Clark was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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8 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).