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 2007 / Former Justice

Robin E. Hudson

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Robin E. Hudson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 2007. She previously served on the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1952 · age 74
Tenure: 2007 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2001	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–
2007	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Yale University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Hudson authored 522 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 53 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: In Re the Will of Jones (465 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. 322 of these were attributed to Hudson 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
2008	In Re the Will of Jones	669 S.E.2d 572	465
2009	Craig Ex Rel. Craig v. New Hanover County Board of Education	678 S.E.2d 351	285
2012	Variety Wholesalers, Inc. v. Salem Logistics Traffic Services, LLC	723 S.E.2d 744	228
2001	Demery v. Perdue Farms, Inc.· Dissent†	545 S.E.2d 485	217
2018	Corwin as Trustee for Beatrice Corwin Living Irrevocable Trust v. British American Tobacco PLC· Dissent†	821 S.E.2d 729	201
2013	Bumpers v. Cmty. Bank of N. Va.· Dissent†	367 N.C. 81	166
2007	State v. Hart	644 S.E.2d 201	161
2019	Sykes v. Health Network Solutions, Inc.†	828 S.E.2d 467	132
2012	State v. Beckelheimer	726 S.E.2d 156	131
2007	Harris v. Matthews· Dissent†	643 S.E.2d 566	116
2003	In Re Shermer	576 S.E.2d 403	105
2010	White v. Thompson· Dissent†	691 S.E.2d 676	98
2010	State v. Bowditch· Dissent†	700 S.E.2d 1	95
2008	State v. Barnard· Dissent†	658 S.E.2d 643	93
2008	Richardson v. Maxim Healthcare/Allegis Group	669 S.E.2d 582	88

Showing the 15 most-cited of 599 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 Robin E. Hudson on?: Robin E. Hudson was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

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19 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).