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 2001 / Served to 2002

Hugh Brown Campbell Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Hugh Brown Campbell Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1907 · age 119
Tenure: 2001–2002 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Davidson College
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Campbell authored 317 published opinions for the court (1968–2003), plus 5 dissents and 4 concurrences. Most cited: Southeastern Shelter Corp. v. BTU, INC. (119 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. 19 of these were attributed to Campbell 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
2002	Southeastern Shelter Corp. v. BTU, INC.	572 S.E.2d 200	119
2002	State v. Pimental	568 S.E.2d 867	89
2002	Lexis-Nexis v. Travishan Corp.	573 S.E.2d 547	52
2002	DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Kirkhart	561 S.E.2d 276	43
1972	Fidelity & Casualty Co. of New York v. North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance	192 S.E.2d 113	40
1970	Whaley v. Rhodes	177 S.E.2d 735	40
2003	Brinkman v. Barrett Kays & Associates, P.A.	575 S.E.2d 40	39
2002	Precision Walls, Inc. v. Servie	568 S.E.2d 267	39
2002	Horack v. Southern Real Estate Co. of Charlotte, Inc.	563 S.E.2d 47	37
2001	In Re Beasley	555 S.E.2d 643	36
2001	State v. Carr	549 S.E.2d 897	36
2002	Harllee v. Harllee	565 S.E.2d 678	32
2002	State v. Dixon· Dissent†	563 S.E.2d 594	32
2001	Merrick v. Peterson	548 S.E.2d 171	32
2002	State v. Smith	568 S.E.2d 289	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 326 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 Hugh Brown Campbell Jr. on?: Hugh Brown Campbell Jr. 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).