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 1952 / Served to 1969

Robert Hunt Parker

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Robert Hunt Parker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1952. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1892–1969
Tenure: 1952–1969 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1952	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Parker authored 680 published opinions for the court (1953–1969), plus 33 dissents and 22 concurrences. Most cited: Childress v. Abeles (176 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. 100 of these were attributed to Parker 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
1954	Childress v. Abeles	84 S.E.2d 176	176
1963	State v. Foust	128 S.E.2d 889	136
1953	State v. Greer	77 S.E.2d 917	119
1967	State v. Miller	157 S.E.2d 335	116
1967	State v. Hewett	154 S.E.2d 476	113
1966	BW Acceptance Corporation v. Spencer	149 S.E.2d 570	104
1964	State v. Goldberg	134 S.E.2d 334	101
1967	State v. Duncan	154 S.E.2d 53	96
1964	Burgess Ex Rel. Burgess v. Gibbs	137 S.E.2d 806	94
1956	Hart v. Thomasville Motors, Inc.	92 S.E.2d 673	93
1966	State v. Bruce	150 S.E.2d 216	81
1968	Hollman v. City of Raleigh, Public Utilities Department	159 S.E.2d 874	80
1966	National Food Stores v. North Carolina Board of Alcoholic Control	151 S.E.2d 582	80
1955	Lutz Industries, Inc. v. Dixie Home Stores	88 S.E.2d 333	79
1967	Moore v. Hartford Fire Insurance Company Group	155 S.E.2d 128	77

Showing the 15 most-cited of 735 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 Hunt Parker on?: Robert Hunt Parker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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17 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).