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 1985 / Served to 1997

Jack L. Cozort

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Jack L. Cozort was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1985–1997 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1985	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

North Carolina State University at Raleigh
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Cozort authored 481 published opinions for the court (1985–1997), plus 28 dissents and 27 concurrences. Most cited: Harvey v. Raleigh Police Department (99 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. 213 of these were attributed to Cozort 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
1989	Harvey v. Raleigh Police Department	384 S.E.2d 549	99
1994	Fish v. Steelcase, Inc.	449 S.E.2d 233	78
1985	Poore v. Poore	331 S.E.2d 266	77
1986	United Virginia Bank v. Air-Lift Associates, Inc.	339 S.E.2d 90	72
1986	Leiphart v. North Carolina School of the Arts	342 S.E.2d 914	57
1987	Hayman v. Ramada Inn, Inc.· Dissent†	357 S.E.2d 394	50
1992	Canady v. Mann†	419 S.E.2d 597	48
1988	Taylor v. North Carolina Department of Correction†	88 N.C. App. 446	48
1985	Martin v. Hare	337 S.E.2d 632	46
1993	Whitaker v. Clark	427 S.E.2d 142	45
1992	Matter of Bluebird	411 S.E.2d 820	43
1986	Keith v. Day	343 S.E.2d 562	38
1985	Sanderson v. Northeast Construction Co.	334 S.E.2d 392	35
1991	State v. Joyce	410 S.E.2d 516	34
1985	Warren v. City of Asheville	328 S.E.2d 859	34

Showing the 15 most-cited of 536 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 Jack L. Cozort on?: Jack L. Cozort 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).