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 1969 / Served to 1992

Robert Alfred Hedrick

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Robert Alfred Hedrick was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1922–2009
Tenure: 1969–1992 · 23 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Hedrick authored 1,432 published opinions for the court (1969–1992), plus 74 dissents and 33 concurrences. Most cited: Dixon v. Stuart (93 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. 895 of these were attributed to Hedrick 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
1987	Dixon v. Stuart	354 S.E.2d 757	93
1979	O'Neill v. Southern National Bank	252 S.E.2d 231	66
1975	Gallimore v. Sink	218 S.E.2d 181	56
1980	Harrell v. J. P. Stevens & Co.	262 S.E.2d 830	51
1978	Wachovia Mortgage Co. v. Autry-Barker-Spurrier Real Estate, Inc.	249 S.E.2d 727	49
1979	Coley v. North Carolina National Bank	254 S.E.2d 217	48
1971	Blalock v. ROBERTS COMPANY	183 S.E.2d 827	48
1985	Parks Chevrolet, Inc. v. Watkins	329 S.E.2d 728	47
1988	Joyner v. Rocky Mount Mills	374 S.E.2d 610	45
1981	Jones v. City of Greensboro	277 S.E.2d 562	45
1980	Phoenix America Corp. v. Brissey	265 S.E.2d 476	39
1979	Weyerhaeuser Co. v. Godwin Building Supply Co.	253 S.E.2d 625	39
1992	Spillman v. American Homes of Mocksville, Inc.	422 S.E.2d 740	36
1983	Cleland v. Children's Home, Inc.	306 S.E.2d 587	36
1983	Mazza v. Huffaker	300 S.E.2d 833	36

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,539 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 Robert Alfred Hedrick on?: Robert Alfred Hedrick was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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23 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).