How do judges of the Supreme Court of North Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 1951 / Served to 1952

Itimous T. Valentine Sr.

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Itimous T. Valentine Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1951. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1887 · age 139
Tenure: 1951–1952 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1951	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Guilford College

Judicial Record

In our data, Valentine authored 43 published opinions for the court (1951–1952), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: State v. McCoy (47 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. 5 of these were attributed to Valentine 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
1952	State v. McCoy	71 S.E.2d 921	47
1951	Guerry v. American Trust Co.	68 S.E.2d 272	33
1952	Neighbors v. Neighbors	73 S.E.2d 153	22
1952	Fogartie v. Fogartie	72 S.E.2d 226	18
1952	Rowe v. City of Durham	69 S.E.2d 171	17
1952	State v. Williams	71 S.E.2d 138	16
1952	Harward v. General Motors Corp.	68 S.E.2d 855	16
1951	Bost v. Bost	67 S.E.2d 745	15
1952	Kennedy v. Kennedy	72 S.E.2d 869	14
1952	Waynick v. Reardon	72 S.E.2d 4	14
1952	Ange v. Ange	71 S.E.2d 19	14
1952	State v. Love	72 S.E.2d 737	13
1952	Howard v. Carman	69 S.E.2d 522	12
1952	Lindsey v. Leonard	68 S.E.2d 852	12
1952	State v. Peacock	72 S.E.2d 612	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 44 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 Supreme Court of North Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is partisan election.
Which court was Itimous T. Valentine Sr. on?: Itimous T. Valentine Sr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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1 year on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).