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 1998 / Served to 2014

Robert C. Hunter Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Robert C. Hunter Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1944 · age 82
Tenure: 1998–2014 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Hunter authored 915 published opinions for the court (1998–2014), plus 55 dissents and 51 concurrences. Most cited: McKoy v. McKoy (138 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. 271 of these were attributed to Hunter 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
2010	McKoy v. McKoy	689 S.E.2d 590	138
2011	Peters v. Pennington	707 S.E.2d 724	113
2009	Carcano v. JBSS, LLC	684 S.E.2d 41	93
2002	Aubin v. Susi	560 S.E.2d 875	83
2002	Country Club of Johnston County, Inc. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.†	150 N.C. App. 231	80
2001	Lake Mary Ltd. Partnership v. Johnston	551 S.E.2d 546	79
2007	Pinewood Homes, Inc. v. Harris	646 S.E.2d 826	78
2002	Keener Lumber Co., Inc. v. Perry	560 S.E.2d 817	73
2005	Dove v. Harvey	608 S.E.2d 798	72
2002	Knight v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.	562 S.E.2d 434	70
2010	Green Ex Rel. Crudup v. Kearney	690 S.E.2d 755	66
2005	Estate of Apple Ex Rel. Apple v. Commercial Courier Express, Inc.	607 S.E.2d 14	63
2004	In re E.N.S.†	164 N.C. App. 146	60
1999	Replacements, Ltd. v. Midwesterling	515 S.E.2d 46	54
1999	Bueltel v. Lumber Mutual Insurance	518 S.E.2d 205	52

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,021 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 C. Hunter Jr. on?: Robert C. Hunter Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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16 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).