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 1992 / Served to 2000

Joseph R. John Sr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Joseph R. John Sr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1992. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1992–2000 · 8 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1992	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, John authored 257 published opinions for the court (1993–2006), plus 12 dissents and 12 concurrences. Most cited: Poor v. Hill (341 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. 75 of these were attributed to John 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
2000	Poor v. Hill	530 S.E.2d 838	341
1994	Amanini v. N.C. Department of Human Resources	443 S.E.2d 114	152
1993	Liggett Group, Inc. v. Sunas	437 S.E.2d 674	126
1998	First Atlantic Management, Corp. v. Dunlea Realty, Co.	507 S.E.2d 56	121
1993	In re the Appeal by McCrary†	112 N.C. App. 161	80
1996	Moore v. Standard Mineral Co.	469 S.E.2d 594	78
1996	Pittman v. Thomas & Howard	468 S.E.2d 283	72
1998	Norman Owen Trucking, Inc. v. Morkoski	506 S.E.2d 267	63
1997	Abels v. Renfro Corp.	486 S.E.2d 735	63
1994	Donovan v. Fiumara	442 S.E.2d 572	60
2000	Sun Suites Holdings, LLC v. Board of Aldermen	533 S.E.2d 525	56
1999	Falk Integrated Technologies, Inc. v. Stack	513 S.E.2d 572	55
1998	Inspirational Network, Inc. v. Combs	506 S.E.2d 754	54
1998	Friedland v. Gales†	509 S.E.2d 793	52
1996	Johnson v. Jones Group, Inc.	472 S.E.2d 587	48

Showing the 15 most-cited of 281 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 Joseph R. John Sr. on?: Joseph R. John Sr. 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).