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 2001 / Active

Wanda G. Bryant

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Wanda G. Bryant is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, serving since 2001. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1956 · age 70
Tenure: Since 2001 · 25 yrs

Judicial service

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

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bryant authored 763 published opinions for the court (2001–2019), plus 30 dissents and 19 concurrences. Most cited: Leary v. N.C. Forest Products, Inc. (165 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. 380 of these were attributed to Bryant 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
2003	Leary v. N.C. Forest Products, Inc.· Concurrence†	580 S.E.2d 1	165
2007	In re C.M.†	644 S.E.2d 588	131
2009	State v. Graham	683 S.E.2d 437	107
2006	Bob Timberlake Collection, Inc. v. Edwards	626 S.E.2d 315	97
2004	In re B.S.D.S.†	163 N.C. App. 540	75
2003	In Re Harton	577 S.E.2d 334	70
2002	Knight v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.· Dissent†	562 S.E.2d 434	70
2003	In Re Clark	582 S.E.2d 657	69
2009	In re S.C.R.†	198 N.C. App. 525	64
2005	Carlisle v. Keith	614 S.E.2d 542	64
2004	State v. Roberson	592 S.E.2d 733	63
2007	Burgin v. Owen	640 S.E.2d 427	60
2003	In Re Padgett	577 S.E.2d 337	55
2005	Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. v. Head & Engquist Equipment, L.L.C.	620 S.E.2d 222	54
2014	Wake County v. Hotels.com, L.P.†	235 N.C. App. 633	43

Showing the 15 most-cited of 812 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 is Wanda G. Bryant on?: Wanda G. Bryant is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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25 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).