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 1983 / Served to 2004

Sidney S. Eagles Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Sidney S. Eagles Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1983–2004 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eagles authored 879 published opinions for the court (1983–2004), plus 45 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Oberlin Capital, L.P. v. Slavin (272 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. 342 of these were attributed to Eagles 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
2001	Oberlin Capital, L.P. v. Slavin	554 S.E.2d 840	272
1986	Concrete Service Corp. v. Investors Group, Inc.†	79 N.C. App. 678	194
1983	Roberts v. Southeastern Magnesia & Asbestos Co.	301 S.E.2d 742	107
1985	Walker v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.	335 S.E.2d 79	85
1986	Lawing v. Lawing	344 S.E.2d 100	77
1994	Radica v. Carolina Mills	439 S.E.2d 185	73
1994	Davis v. Town of Southern Pines	449 S.E.2d 240	67
1986	Virginia Electric & Power Co. v. Tillett	343 S.E.2d 188	67
2002	In Re Pittman	561 S.E.2d 560	65
2000	Peagler v. Tyson Foods, Inc.	532 S.E.2d 207	65
1997	Wilmington Star-News, Inc. v. New Hanover Regional Medical Center, Inc.	480 S.E.2d 53	65
2001	Filmar Racing, Inc. v. Stewart	541 S.E.2d 733	64
2003	Lemly v. Colvard Oil Co.	577 S.E.2d 712	60
1988	Watson v. Winston-Salem Transit Authority	374 S.E.2d 483	59
1995	Horne v. Universal Leaf Tobacco Processors	459 S.E.2d 797	57

Showing the 15 most-cited of 942 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 Sidney S. Eagles Jr. on?: Sidney S. Eagles Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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21 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).