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 1993 / Served to 1994

Elizabeth Gordon McCrodden

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Elizabeth Gordon McCrodden was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1993. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1993–1994 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1993	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Randolph College

Judicial Record

In our data, McCrodden authored 74 published opinions for the court (1993–1995), plus 3 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Alt v. Parker (35 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. 35 of these were attributed to McCrodden 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
1993	Alt v. Parker	435 S.E.2d 773	35
1994	Smith v. Phillips	451 S.E.2d 309	32
1994	Barbee v. Atlantic Marine Sales & Service, Inc.	446 S.E.2d 117	32
1993	State v. Sanders	435 S.E.2d 842	25
1993	State v. Neal	428 S.E.2d 287	25
1993	Latham v. Cherry	433 S.E.2d 478	24
1994	City of Winston-Salem v. Yarbrough	451 S.E.2d 358	21
1994	Sealey v. Grine· Concurrence†	444 S.E.2d 632	21
1993	Whiteco Industries, Inc. v. Harrelson	434 S.E.2d 229	20
1993	In Re Becker	431 S.E.2d 820	20
1993	State v. Beveridge· Dissent†	436 S.E.2d 912	19
1994	Canady v. McLeod	446 S.E.2d 879	18
1993	State v. Church	430 S.E.2d 462	18
1993	State v. McKinney· Concurrence†	430 S.E.2d 300	17
1994	Collins Coin Music Co. of North Carolina, Inc. v. North Carolina Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission	451 S.E.2d 306	16

Showing the 15 most-cited of 81 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 Elizabeth Gordon McCrodden on?: Elizabeth Gordon McCrodden was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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1 year 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).