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 1990

Eugene H. Phillips

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Eugene H. Phillips was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1982. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1982–1990 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Phillips authored 486 published opinions for the court (1983–1991), plus 76 dissents and 37 concurrences. Most cited: Sides v. Duke University (173 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. 363 of these were attributed to Phillips 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
1985	Sides v. Duke University	328 S.E.2d 818	173
1987	J & B Slurry Seal Co. v. Mid-South Aviation, Inc.· Concurrence†	362 S.E.2d 812	84
1984	Collins v. Davis	315 S.E.2d 759	75
1985	Dailey v. Integon General Ins. Corp.	331 S.E.2d 148	69
1988	Bridges v. Linn-Corriher Corp.	368 S.E.2d 388	49
1986	Pinehurst, Inc. v. O'Leary Bros. Realty, Inc.· Concurrence†	338 S.E.2d 918	49
1989	Adams v. Moore	385 S.E.2d 799	37
1984	Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Edwards· Dissent†	312 S.E.2d 656	37
1984	Blackwell v. Massey	316 S.E.2d 350	34
1986	State v. Holloway	347 S.E.2d 72	32
1989	Nash v. Motorola Communications & Electronics, Inc.· Concurrence†	385 S.E.2d 537	31
1990	Witherow v. Witherow· Concurrence†	392 S.E.2d 627	30
1985	Stanford v. Owens	332 S.E.2d 730	28
1988	Truesdale v. Truesdale· Concurrence†	366 S.E.2d 512	27
1987	McKnight v. Simpson's Beauty Supply, Inc.	358 S.E.2d 107	27

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 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 Eugene H. Phillips on?: Eugene H. Phillips 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).