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 2014

John C. Martin

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

John C. Martin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1985. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1985–2014 · 29 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Martin authored 794 published opinions for the court (1985–2014), plus 11 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (411 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. 204 of these were attributed to Martin 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
1987	Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina	355 S.E.2d 838	411
1986	Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co.	340 S.E.2d 116	264
2001	Sims v. Charmes/Arby's Roast Beef	542 S.E.2d 277	157
2002	Toomer v. Garrett	574 S.E.2d 76	140
2000	Bruggeman v. Meditrust Acquisition Co.	532 S.E.2d 215	100
2005	In re D.J.D.†	615 S.E.2d 26	89
2002	Abernathy v. Sandoz Chemicals/Clariant Corp.	565 S.E.2d 218	75
1999	Shell Island Homeowners Ass'n v. Tomlinson	517 S.E.2d 406	73
2001	Sessler v. Marsh	551 S.E.2d 160	70
2004	Stetser v. Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.	598 S.E.2d 570	65
2002	Cartin v. Harrison	567 S.E.2d 174	62
1987	Fox v. Wilson	354 S.E.2d 737	62
1987	Robinson v. Seaboard System RR, Inc.	361 S.E.2d 909	61
1993	Glover v. First Union National Bank of North Carolina†	428 S.E.2d 206	60
2004	Smith-Price v. Charter Behavioral Health Systems	595 S.E.2d 778	58

Showing the 15 most-cited of 815 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 C. Martin on?: John C. Martin was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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29 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).