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 1986 / Served to 1998

John Webb

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

John Webb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1986. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–2009
Tenure: 1986–1998 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1977	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
1986	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, Webb authored 670 published opinions for the court (1978–1998), plus 118 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Boudreau v. Baughman (288 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. 423 of these were attributed to Webb 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
1988	Boudreau v. Baughman· Dissent†	368 S.E.2d 849	288
1990	Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A.· Dissent†	395 S.E.2d 85	287
1987	State v. Holden	362 S.E.2d 513	234
1988	Booe v. Shadrick	369 S.E.2d 554	216
1987	State v. Etheridge· Dissent†	352 S.E.2d 673	189
1998	Pulliam v. Smith· Dissent†	501 S.E.2d 898	148
1994	State v. Lee	439 S.E.2d 547	143
1990	State v. Cummings· Dissent†	389 S.E.2d 66	140
1989	State v. Huff· Concurrence†	381 S.E.2d 635	122
1996	Walton v. City of Raleigh	467 S.E.2d 410	115
1988	State v. White· Dissent†	369 S.E.2d 813	114
1994	State v. Jones	451 S.E.2d 826	109
1998	Bailey v. State· Concurrence†	500 S.E.2d 54	108
1995	State v. Larrimore	456 S.E.2d 789	104
1987	Gupton v. Builders Transport· Dissent†	357 S.E.2d 674	98

Showing the 15 most-cited of 811 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 John Webb on?: John Webb was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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12 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).