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 1968 / Served to 1980

Francis Marion Parker Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Francis Marion Parker Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1968–1980 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 893 published opinions for the court (1968–1980), plus 13 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Whitley v. Cubberly (68 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. 409 of these were attributed to Parker 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
1974	Whitley v. Cubberly	210 S.E.2d 289	68
1978	Harrington Manufacturing Co. v. Powell Manufacturing Co.	248 S.E.2d 739	64
1978	Barbour v. Little†	37 N.C. App. 686	46
1976	State v. Weems	230 S.E.2d 193	46
1978	Barbour v. Little	247 S.E.2d 252	43
1969	State v. Blackmon	169 S.E.2d 472	43
1980	Porter v. Shelby Knit, Inc.	264 S.E.2d 360	42
1970	Patterson Ex Rel. Jones v. Reid	178 S.E.2d 1	42
1980	Marshall v. Miller	268 S.E.2d 97	37
1980	Moore v. JP STEVENS & CO., INC.	269 S.E.2d 159	35
1971	Robinson v. McMahan	181 S.E.2d 147	34
1980	Silver v. North Carolina Board of Transportation	267 S.E.2d 49	33
1976	State v. Browning	221 S.E.2d 375	31
1975	Bogle v. Duke Power Co.· Concurrence†	219 S.E.2d 308	31
1979	Lynch v. M. B. Kahn Construction Co.	254 S.E.2d 236	30

Showing the 15 most-cited of 907 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 Francis Marion Parker Jr. on?: Francis Marion Parker Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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12 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).