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 1986 / Served to 2002

K Edward Greene

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

K Edward Greene was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1986. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1986–2002 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1986	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

East Carolina University

Judicial Record

In our data, Greene authored 893 published opinions for the court (1987–2002), plus 168 dissents and 129 concurrences. Most cited: Russell v. Lowes Product Distribution (905 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. 510 of these were attributed to Greene 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
1993	Russell v. Lowes Product Distribution	425 S.E.2d 454	905
1997	Matter of Helms	491 S.E.2d 672	306
1992	Branch Banking and Trust Co. v. Thompson	418 S.E.2d 694	241
2001	Demery v. Perdue Farms, Inc.	545 S.E.2d 485	217
2000	Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc.· Concurrence†	537 S.E.2d 248	154
1996	Franklin v. Broyhill Furniture Industries	472 S.E.2d 382	147
1987	Johnson v. Bollinger†	86 N.C. App. 1	116
1991	State v. Wallace	410 S.E.2d 226	115
2002	Guerrier v. Guerrier	574 S.E.2d 69	114
1995	Pleasant Valley Promenade v. Lechmere, Inc.· Concurrence†	464 S.E.2d 47	112
1993	Matter of Safriet	436 S.E.2d 898	110
1987	Johnson v. Bollinger	356 S.E.2d 378	106
2000	Austin v. Continental General Tire· Dissent†	540 S.E.2d 824	96
1994	Burwell v. Winn-Dixie Raleigh, Inc.	441 S.E.2d 145	92
1989	Privette v. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	385 S.E.2d 185	91

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,190 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 K Edward Greene on?: K Edward Greene was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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16 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).