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 2002 / Active

Richard A. Elmore

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Richard A. Elmore is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, serving since 2002. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2002 · 24 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2002	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Guilford College

Judicial Record

In our data, Elmore authored 671 published opinions for the court (2003–2018), plus 38 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Perez v. American Airlines/AMR Corp. (108 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. 370 of these were attributed to Elmore 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
2005	Perez v. American Airlines/AMR Corp.	620 S.E.2d 288	108
2004	In re J.L.K.†	165 N.C. App. 311	78
2017	Rountree v. Chowan Cty.†	796 S.E.2d 827	72
2007	In re N.G.†	650 S.E.2d 45	59
2004	In re J.C.S.†	164 N.C. App. 96	55
2007	In re R.A.H.†	641 S.E.2d 404	53
2004	Woolard v. Davenport	601 S.E.2d 319	51
2005	In re C.J.B.†	614 S.E.2d 368	45
2008	State v. Young	660 S.E.2d 574	44
2003	State v. Every· Dissent†	578 S.E.2d 642	43
2016	State v. Blue†	783 S.E.2d 524	39
2016	In re: D.M.O.†	794 S.E.2d 858	35
2009	State v. Morrow· Concurrence†	683 S.E.2d 754	33
2009	State v. Wagoner· Dissent†	683 S.E.2d 391	33
2018	State v. Harding†	813 S.E.2d 254	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 725 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 Richard A. Elmore on?: Richard A. Elmore is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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24 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).