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 1962 / Served to 1979

Susie Sharp

Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Susie Sharp was a Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1962. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1907–1996
Tenure: 1962–1979 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1962	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Sharp authored 459 published opinions for the court (1962–1979), plus 29 dissents and 16 concurrences. Most cited: Sutton v. Duke (694 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. 77 of these were attributed to Sharp 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
1970	Sutton v. Duke	176 S.E.2d 161	694
1979	Booker v. Duke Medical Center	256 S.E.2d 189	434
1976	Smith v. State	222 S.E.2d 412	293
1978	In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples	250 S.E.2d 890	249
1976	Kidd v. Early	222 S.E.2d 392	235
1978	Woods v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance	246 S.E.2d 773	215
1976	Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc.· Concurrence†	225 S.E.2d 797	213
1976	Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance· Concurrence†	229 S.E.2d 297	209
1973	Lane v. Scarborough	200 S.E.2d 622	184
1962	Pratt v. Bishop	126 S.E.2d 597	170
1975	State v. Bindyke	220 S.E.2d 521	164
1977	In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Nowell†	237 S.E.2d 246	157
1970	State v. Benton	174 S.E.2d 793	157
1972	Calloway v. Ford Motor Company	189 S.E.2d 484	150
1973	State v. Waddell· Concurrence†	194 S.E.2d 19	142

Showing the 15 most-cited of 504 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 Susie Sharp on?: Susie Sharp 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).