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 2007 / Served to 2008

John S. Arrowood

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

John S. Arrowood was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: 2007–2008 · 1 yr

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Catawba College

Judicial Record

In our data, Arrowood authored 78 published opinions for the court (2007–2026), plus 2 concurrences. Most cited: Strickland v. Hedrick (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. 5 of these were attributed to Arrowood 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
2008	Strickland v. Hedrick	669 S.E.2d 61	99
2008	Hartsell v. Hartsell	657 S.E.2d 724	22
2007	Curl v. American Multimedia, Inc.	654 S.E.2d 76	22
2008	Cross v. Capital Transaction Group, Inc.	661 S.E.2d 778	19
2008	Sawyer v. Market America, Inc.	661 S.E.2d 750	18
2007	Brown v. Refuel America, Inc.	652 S.E.2d 389	18
2008	Austin v. Bald II, L.L.C.	658 S.E.2d 1	16
2007	Smith v. Forsyth County Board of Adjustment	652 S.E.2d 355	14
2008	Petroleum Traders Corp. v. State	660 S.E.2d 662	13
2008	Saft America, Inc. v. Plainview Batteries, Inc.· Concurrence†	659 S.E.2d 39	13
2008	State v. Jones	655 S.E.2d 915	13
2008	Rossetto USA, Inc. v. Greensky Financial, LLC	662 S.E.2d 909	12
2008	Johnson v. City of Winston-Salem· Concurrence†	656 S.E.2d 608	12
2008	State v. Hanner	654 S.E.2d 820	12
2008	In re S.M.†	660 S.E.2d 653	11

Showing the 15 most-cited of 80 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 John S. Arrowood on?: John S. Arrowood 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).