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 2002 / Served to 2006

Eric L. Levinson

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Eric L. Levinson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2002–2006 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of Georgia

Judicial Record

In our data, Levinson authored 196 published opinions for the court (2003–2007), plus 8 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: In re P.L.P. (111 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. 87 of these were attributed to Levinson 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
2005	In re P.L.P.†	618 S.E.2d 241	111
2005	In re O.C.†	615 S.E.2d 391	104
2006	State v. Hanton	623 S.E.2d 600	74
2003	In Re Baker	581 S.E.2d 144	63
2004	Slaughter v. Swicegood	591 S.E.2d 577	61
2003	In Re McKinney	581 S.E.2d 793	61
2003	Johnson v. Herbie's Place	579 S.E.2d 110	56
2004	In Re M.R.D.C.	603 S.E.2d 890	54
2004	Dunn v. Custer	591 S.E.2d 11	50
2004	State v. Bush· Concurrence†	595 S.E.2d 715	47
2003	Proposed Assessments of Additional Sales v. Jefferson-Pilot Life Insurance Co.	589 S.E.2d 179	47
2003	Pacheco v. Rogers and Breece, Inc.	579 S.E.2d 505	43
2003	Scott v. Scott	579 S.E.2d 431	42
2004	State v. Shelton	605 S.E.2d 228	39
2006	Farndale Co., LLC v. Gibellini	628 S.E.2d 15	38

Showing the 15 most-cited of 223 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 Eric L. Levinson on?: Eric L. Levinson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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4 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).