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 2001 / Former Justice

Robert Holt Edmunds Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (7 judges, selected by partisan election), who joined the court in 2001. They previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
2001	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Vassar College
Vassar College

Judicial Record

In our data, Edmunds authored 213 published opinions for the court (1999–2016), plus 12 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: In Re Appeal of the Greens of Pine Glen Ltd. Partnership (265 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. 109 of these were attributed to Edmunds 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
2003	In Re Appeal of the Greens of Pine Glen Ltd. Partnership	576 S.E.2d 316	265
2006	In re T.R.P.†	360 N.C. 588	219
2004	State v. Garcia· Concurrence†	597 S.E.2d 724	204
2002	State v. Barden	572 S.E.2d 108	184
2001	State v. Lloyd	552 S.E.2d 596	181
2002	DeWitt v. Eveready Battery Co., Inc.	565 S.E.2d 140	177
2002	Mann Media, Inc. v. Randolph County Planning Board	565 S.E.2d 9	160
2003	Summey v. Barker	586 S.E.2d 247	154
2007	Walker v. Fleetwood Homes of North Carolina, Inc.	653 S.E.2d 393	135
2001	State v. Lucas	548 S.E.2d 712	130
2004	State v. Tirado	599 S.E.2d 515	125
2004	State v. Morgan	604 S.E.2d 886	120
2009	State v. Miller	678 S.E.2d 592	113
2003	State v. Haselden· Dissent†	577 S.E.2d 594	107
2000	Block v. County of Person	540 S.E.2d 415	106

Showing the 15 most-cited of 239 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 Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. on?: Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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25 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).