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 1995 / Active

Linda M. McGee

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Linda M. McGee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, serving since 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 1995 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, McGee authored 867 published opinions for the court (1995–2019), plus 23 dissents and 15 concurrences. Most cited: Gaunt v. Pittaway (162 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. 344 of these were attributed to McGee 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	Gaunt v. Pittaway	534 S.E.2d 660	162
2003	In Re Humphrey	577 S.E.2d 421	146
2000	Clark v. ITT Grinnell Industrial Piping, Inc.	539 S.E.2d 369	104
2000	Austin v. Continental General Tire	540 S.E.2d 824	96
2001	State v. Stroud	557 S.E.2d 544	94
2003	Whitfield v. Laboratory Corp. of America	581 S.E.2d 778	86
2000	Hardin v. Motor Panels, Inc.	524 S.E.2d 368	83
2004	Hunter v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America	593 S.E.2d 595	82
2008	Crouse v. Mineo	658 S.E.2d 33	80
2007	In re T.H.T.†	648 S.E.2d 519	79
2006	State v. Hanton· Concurrence†	623 S.E.2d 600	74
2009	State v. Castaneda	674 S.E.2d 707	62
1996	Helms v. Holland	478 S.E.2d 513	61
2010	State v. Brooks	693 S.E.2d 204	60
2001	Burgess v. Busby	544 S.E.2d 4	59

Showing the 15 most-cited of 905 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 is Linda M. McGee on?: Linda M. McGee is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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31 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).