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 2003 / Active

Martha A. Geer

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Martha A. Geer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, serving since 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2003 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Bryn Mawr College

Judicial Record

In our data, Geer authored 600 published opinions for the court (2003–2016), plus 24 dissents and 26 concurrences. Most cited: White v. Consolidated Planning, Inc. (196 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. 220 of these were attributed to Geer 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
2004	White v. Consolidated Planning, Inc.	603 S.E.2d 147	196
2003	Leary v. N.C. Forest Products, Inc.	580 S.E.2d 1	165
2005	In Re PM	610 S.E.2d 403	123
2005	In re P.M.†	169 N.C. App. 423	121
2009	Hardin v. KCS International, Inc.	682 S.E.2d 726	114
2005	Banc of America Securities LLC v. Evergreen International Aviation, Inc.	611 S.E.2d 179	104
2008	State v. Smith	656 S.E.2d 695	94
2006	In re T.M.†	638 S.E.2d 236	91
2007	Weaver v. Saint Joseph of the Pines, Inc.	652 S.E.2d 701	89
2005	In re C.L.C.†	615 S.E.2d 704	82
2004	RD&J Properties v. Lauralea-Dilton Enterprises, LLC	600 S.E.2d 492	75
2005	State v. McCoy· Dissent†	615 S.E.2d 319	74
2005	Spicer v. Spicer	607 S.E.2d 678	58
2008	Mason v. Dwinnell	660 S.E.2d 58	57
2005	In re L.O.K.†	621 S.E.2d 236	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 650 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 Martha A. Geer on?: Martha A. Geer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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23 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).