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The court's current selection method is partisan election.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina / Joined 1967 / Served to 1973

Raymond Bowden Mallard

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Raymond Bowden Mallard was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1908–1979
Tenure: 1967–1973 · 6 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Mallard authored 353 published opinions for the court (1968–1973), plus 7 dissents and 6 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Custody of Stancil (113 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. 178 of these were attributed to Mallard 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
1971	In Re Custody of Stancil	179 S.E.2d 844	113
1970	Starr v. Charlotte Paper Company	175 S.E.2d 342	79
1968	Morgan v. Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc.	162 S.E.2d 619	57
1969	Martin Ex Rel. Martin v. Georgia-Pacific Corp.	167 S.E.2d 790	43
1969	Sebastian v. Kluttz	170 S.E.2d 104	41
1971	Austin v. Austin	183 S.E.2d 420	40
1971	Peoples v. Peoples	179 S.E.2d 138	36
1970	Wheeler v. Denton	175 S.E.2d 769	35
1969	Baillie Lumber Co. v. Kincaid Carolina Corp.	167 S.E.2d 85	30
1971	North American Acceptance Corp. v. Samuels	181 S.E.2d 794	28
1971	Hill v. Hill	180 S.E.2d 424	27
1971	State v. Flowers	183 S.E.2d 820	26
1969	Thrasher v. Thrasher	167 S.E.2d 549	25
1970	State v. Teasley	176 S.E.2d 838	22
1968	York v. Newman	163 S.E.2d 282	22

Showing the 15 most-cited of 366 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 Raymond Bowden Mallard on?: Raymond Bowden Mallard was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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6 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).