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 1982 / Served to 1984

Edwin Maurice Braswell

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Edwin Maurice Braswell was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1982–1984 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1982	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Braswell authored 136 published opinions for the court (1982–1984), plus 6 dissents. Most cited: Collins v. Davis (75 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. 51 of these were attributed to Braswell 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
1984	Collins v. Davis· Dissent†	315 S.E.2d 759	75
1983	Adams v. Burlington Industries, Inc.	300 S.E.2d 455	54
1983	Pollard v. Krispy Waffle No. 1	304 S.E.2d 762	53
1984	Robins & Weill, Inc. v. Mason	320 S.E.2d 693	43
1984	County of Wayne Ex Rel. Williams v. Whitley	323 S.E.2d 458	31
1983	State v. Williamson	301 S.E.2d 423	26
1983	Lloyd v. Carnation Co.	301 S.E.2d 414	26
1984	Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance v. Allen	314 S.E.2d 552	24
1984	Matter of Tate	312 S.E.2d 535	22
1984	Parks v. Perry	314 S.E.2d 287	21
1983	Little v. North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners	306 S.E.2d 534	21
1984	State v. Rutherford	320 S.E.2d 916	19
1983	Sims v. Ritter Construction, Inc.	302 S.E.2d 293	19
1984	Hinton v. Hinton	321 S.E.2d 161	18
1984	Bishop v. Reinhold	311 S.E.2d 298	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 142 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 Edwin Maurice Braswell on?: Edwin Maurice Braswell 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).