Supreme Court of North Carolina / Joined 2023 / Active

Richard Dietz

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Richard Dietz is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, serving since 2023. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure
Since 2023 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

YearCourtAppointed byVote
2023Supreme Court of North Carolina

Judicial Record

In our data, Dietz authored 9 published opinions for the court (2025–2026).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 9 of these were attributed to Dietz 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

Showing the 9 most-cited of 9 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 is Richard Dietz on?
Richard Dietz is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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3 years on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).