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 1994 / Served to 1994

Sydnor Thompson

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Sydnor Thompson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1924–2015
Tenure: 1994–1994

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

Syracuse University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Thompson authored 14 published opinions for the court (1994–1995), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Hartman v. WH Odell and Associates, Inc. (94 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. 5 of these were attributed to Thompson 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
1994	Hartman v. WH Odell and Associates, Inc.	450 S.E.2d 912	94
1995	Friends of Hatteras Island National Historic Maritime Forest Land Trust for Preservation, Inc. v. Coastal Resources Commission	452 S.E.2d 337	21
1994	Wooten v. Warren Ex Rel. Gilmer	451 S.E.2d 342	14
1994	Trull v. Central Carolina Bank & Trust Co.	450 S.E.2d 542	14
1995	Maryland Casualty Co. v. Smith	452 S.E.2d 318	12
1994	Forsyth Municipal Alcoholic Beverage Control Board v. Folds	450 S.E.2d 498	12
1994	Shamley v. Shamley	455 S.E.2d 435	11
1995	State v. Antoine	451 S.E.2d 368	9
1994	Fleet National Bank v. Raleigh Oaks Joint Venture· Concurrence†	451 S.E.2d 325	7
1994	State v. Donnell	450 S.E.2d 533	6
1994	State v. Canup	451 S.E.2d 9	4
1994	Slatton v. Metro Air Conditioning, Inc.†	117 N.C. App. 226	2
1994	Westport 85 Ltd. Partnership v. Casto†	117 N.C. App. 198	1
1994	Raintree Homeowners Ass'n v. Bleimann†	116 N.C. App. 561	1
1994	State v. Cohen†	117 N.C. App. 265	0

Showing the 15 most-cited of 15 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 Sydnor Thompson on?: Sydnor Thompson was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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Joined the court in 1994. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).