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 1967 / Served to 1982

Naomi E. Morris

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Naomi E. Morris was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–1986
Tenure: 1967–1982 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Morris authored 1,011 published opinions for the court (1968–1982), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Reliance Insurance v. Walker (73 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. 498 of these were attributed to Morris 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
1977	Reliance Insurance v. Walker	234 S.E.2d 206	73
1979	Manpower of Guilford County, Inc. v. Hedgecock	257 S.E.2d 109	68
1980	Quail Hollow East Condominium Association v. Donald J. Scholz Co.	268 S.E.2d 12	50
1980	Cockerham v. Ward	262 S.E.2d 651	49
1970	Pridgen v. Hughes	177 S.E.2d 425	48
1981	Matter of Peirce	281 S.E.2d 198	47
1977	Batiste v. American Home Products Corp.	231 S.E.2d 269	43
1981	Gillespie v. DeWitt	280 S.E.2d 736	41
1978	Bache Halsey Stuart, Inc. v. Hunsucker	248 S.E.2d 567	41
1973	United Artists Records, Inc. v. Eastern Tape Corp.	196 S.E.2d 598	38
1970	Congleton v. City of Asheboro	174 S.E.2d 870	38
1978	Capps v. City of Raleigh	241 S.E.2d 527	34
1981	Fungaroli v. Fungaroli	276 S.E.2d 521	32
1978	Siders v. Gibbs	249 S.E.2d 858	32
1977	State v. Wiggins	235 S.E.2d 265	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,025 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 Naomi E. Morris on?: Naomi E. Morris was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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15 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).