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 2001 / Served to 2009

John Marsh Tyson

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

John Marsh Tyson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2001–2009 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina Wilmington

Judicial Record

In our data, Tyson authored 530 published opinions for the court (2001–2026), plus 99 dissents and 68 concurrences. Most cited: In re J.S.L. (91 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. 292 of these were attributed to Tyson 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
2006	In re J.S.L.†	628 S.E.2d 387	91
2002	Governor's Club, Inc. v. Governors Club Ltd. Partnership· Concurrence†	567 S.E.2d 781	85
2005	In re C.L.C.· Dissent†	615 S.E.2d 704	82
2003	Draughon v. Harnett County Board of Education	580 S.E.2d 732	81
2007	In re T.H.T.· Dissent†	648 S.E.2d 519	79
2002	Harrold v. Dowd	561 S.E.2d 914	74
2005	Estate of Apple Ex Rel. Apple v. Commercial Courier Express, Inc.· Concurrence†	607 S.E.2d 14	63
2005	State v. Blizzard	610 S.E.2d 245	62
2007	Burgin v. Owen· Dissent†	640 S.E.2d 427	60
2007	In re N.G.· Dissent†	650 S.E.2d 45	59
2005	State v. Wood	622 S.E.2d 120	58
2005	Johnson v. Lucas· Dissent†	608 S.E.2d 336	58
2005	In re L.E.B.†	169 N.C. App. 375	56
2007	Parker v. Glosson· Dissent†	641 S.E.2d 735	51
2002	Effingham v. THE KROGER CO.	561 S.E.2d 287	51

Showing the 15 most-cited of 697 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 Marsh Tyson on?: John Marsh Tyson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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8 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).