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 2006 / Served to 2011

Patricia Timmons-Goodson

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Patricia Timmons-Goodson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2006. She previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1954 · age 72
Tenure: 2006–2011 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1997	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
2006	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Timmons-Goodson authored 315 published opinions for the court (1997–2011), plus 16 dissents and 13 concurrences. Most cited: Hudson-Cole Development Corp. v. Beemer (117 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 Timmons-Goodson 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
1999	Hudson-Cole Development Corp. v. Beemer†	511 S.E.2d 309	117
2009	State v. Locklear†	681 S.E.2d 293	114
2008	State v. Ridgeway Brands Manufacturing, LLC†	666 S.E.2d 107	114
2000	Walker v. Sloan†	529 S.E.2d 236	104
1998	Moore v. Coachmen Industries, Inc.†	499 S.E.2d 772	96
2008	Tillman v. Commercial Credit Loans, Inc.†	655 S.E.2d 362	91
2008	Schenkel & Shultz, Inc. v. Hermon F. Fox & Associates†	658 S.E.2d 918	88
2001	Fuller v. Easley†	553 S.E.2d 43	74
2009	In Re the Summons Issued to Ernst & Young, LLP†	684 S.E.2d 151	63
2000	Browning v. Helff†	524 S.E.2d 95	62
2000	Miller v. Rose†	532 S.E.2d 228	59
2000	Novacare Orthotics & Prosthetics East, Inc. v. Speelman†	528 S.E.2d 918	56
2010	State v. Davis†	698 S.E.2d 65	55
2001	Mitchell v. Linville†	557 S.E.2d 620	55
2003	In Re Yocum†	580 S.E.2d 399	49

Showing the 15 most-cited of 344 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 Patricia Timmons-Goodson on?: Patricia Timmons-Goodson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

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5 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).