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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina / Joined 2001 / Served to 2002

Loretta Copeland Biggs

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Loretta Copeland Biggs was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2001–2002 · 1 yr
Education: Spelman College 1976

Judicial service

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

Education

Howard University
Spelman College	B.A.	1976

Judicial Record

In our data, Biggs authored 13 published opinions for the court (2001–2002), plus 9 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Guerrier v. Guerrier (114 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. 25 of these were attributed to Biggs 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
2002	Guerrier v. Guerrier· Concurrence†	574 S.E.2d 69	114
2001	Creek Pointe Homeowner's Ass'n v. Happ†	552 S.E.2d 220	48
2002	Pitillo v. N.C. Department of Environmental Health & Natural Resources†	151 N.C. App. 641	44
2002	McConnell v. McConnell†	566 S.E.2d 801	42
2002	Leary v. Leary· Concurrence†	567 S.E.2d 834	37
2001	State v. Stancil· Dissent†	552 S.E.2d 212	26
2001	State v. Mason†	550 S.E.2d 10	26
2001	State v. Jones· Concurrence†	556 S.E.2d 644	18
2002	State v. Kinlock· Dissent†	566 S.E.2d 738	14
2002	Barton v. Sutton†	568 S.E.2d 264	13
2001	Guilford County v. Eller· Dissent†	553 S.E.2d 235	10
2002	Goodwin v. Webb†	568 S.E.2d 311	8
2002	Goynias v. Spa Health Clubs, Inc.· Dissent†	558 S.E.2d 880	7
2002	Sudds v. Gillian†	152 N.C. App. 659	5
2002	Campen v. Featherstone†	150 N.C. App. 692	5

Showing the 15 most-cited of 25 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 Loretta Copeland Biggs on?: Loretta Copeland Biggs was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

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1 year 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).