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 1924 / Served to 1926

Lycurgus R. Varser

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Lycurgus R. Varser was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1924. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1878–1959
Tenure: 1924–1926 · 2 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1924	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Varser authored 68 published opinions for the court (1925). Most cited: Davis v. Robinson (76 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. 8 of these were attributed to Varser 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
1925	Davis v. Robinson†	189 N.C. 589	76
1925	Davis v. . Robinson	127 S.E. 697	55
1925	State v. . Steele	130 S.E. 308	47
1925	Clark v. . Homes	128 S.E. 20	47
1925	State v. . Meyers	129 S.E. 600	45
1925	Hunt v. Eure†	189 N.C. 482	42
1925	State v. . Malpass	127 S.E. 248	37
1925	Kelly v. Newark Shoe Stores Co.	130 S.E. 2	36
1925	Kelly Springfield Tire Co. v. Lester	130 S.E. 5	35
1925	Colt v. . Kimball	129 S.E. 406	33
1925	Perry v. Southern Surety Co.	129 S.E. 721	31
1925	Clark v. Carolina Homes, Inc.†	189 N.C. 703	31
1925	McCain v. Hartford Live Stock Insurance	130 S.E. 186	29
1925	Carolina Discount Corp. v. Landis Motor Co.	129 S.E. 414	27
1925	Pridgen v. . Pridgen	129 S.E. 419	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 68 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 Lycurgus R. Varser on?: Lycurgus R. Varser was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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2 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).