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 1968 / Served to 1982

J. Frank Huskins

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

J. Frank Huskins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1911–1995
Tenure: 1968–1982 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Huskins authored 323 published opinions for the court (1968–1982), plus 29 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: Ragsdale v. Kennedy (445 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. 65 of these were attributed to Huskins 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	Ragsdale v. Kennedy	209 S.E.2d 494	445
1979	State v. Goodman· Concurrence†	257 S.E.2d 569	272
1975	Caldwell v. Deese	218 S.E.2d 379	239
1979	State v. Cherry· Concurrence†	257 S.E.2d 551	233
1972	Page v. Sloan	190 S.E.2d 189	232
1975	Hardy v. Toler· Concurrence†	218 S.E.2d 342	187
1981	Morrison v. Burlington Industries	282 S.E.2d 458	184
1971	Watkins v. Central Motor Lines, Inc.	181 S.E.2d 588	182
1979	State v. Johnson· Concurrence†	257 S.E.2d 597	179
1974	Dickinson v. Pake	201 S.E.2d 897	178
1979	Moore v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.	251 S.E.2d 419	177
1975	State v. Bindyke· Dissent†	220 S.E.2d 521	164
1975	State v. Monk	212 S.E.2d 125	162
1976	State v. Tolley	226 S.E.2d 353	156
1975	State v. McKinney	215 S.E.2d 578	154

Showing the 15 most-cited of 358 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 J. Frank Huskins on?: J. Frank Huskins was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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14 years 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).