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 2023 / Active

Trey Allen

Associate Justice, Supreme Court of North Carolina

Trey Allen is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, serving since 2023. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2023 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2023	Supreme Court of North Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Allen authored 8 published opinions for the court (2025–2026).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 8 of these were attributed to Allen 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
2026	State v. Robinson†	–
2026	State ex rel. N.C. Utils. Comm'n v. Carolina Indus. Grp. for Fair Util. Rates III†	–
2026	State ex rel. N.C. Utils. Comm'n v. Carolina Indus. Grp. for Fair Util. Rates II†	–
2025	Sanders v. N.C. Dep't of Transp.†	–
2025	Durham Green Flea Market v. City of Durham†	–
2025	N.C. Dep't of Env't Quality v. N.C. Farm Bureau Fed'n, Inc.†	–
2025	N.C. Dep't of Revenue v. Philip Morris USA, Inc.†	–
2025	Moseley v. Hendricks†	–

Showing the 8 most-cited of 8 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 is Trey Allen on?: Trey Allen is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Sources

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3 years on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).