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 1969 / Served to 1973

William E. Graham

Judge, Court of Appeals of North Carolina

William E. Graham was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina, who joined the court in 1969. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1969–1973 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1969	Court of Appeals of North Carolina	–	–

Education

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Judicial Record

In our data, Graham authored 243 published opinions for the court (1969–1973), plus 1 dissent and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Snead v. Sandhurst Mills, Inc. (45 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. 108 of these were attributed to Graham 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	Snead v. Sandhurst Mills, Inc.	174 S.E.2d 699	45
1970	State v. Martin	173 S.E.2d 47	40
1971	Crosrol Carding Developments, Inc. v. Gunter & Cooke, Inc.	183 S.E.2d 834	36
1972	Mabe v. North Carolina Granite Corporation	189 S.E.2d 804	35
1971	Williams v. Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc.	179 S.E.2d 319	33
1971	Seaboard Industries, Inc. v. Blair	178 S.E.2d 781	29
1972	In Re Northwestern Bonding Co., Inc.	192 S.E.2d 33	28
1969	State v. Walker	171 S.E.2d 91	28
1971	Miller Ex Rel. Yeager v. Snipes	183 S.E.2d 270	25
1972	State v. Wiggins	192 S.E.2d 680	24
1971	Moore v. Bryson	181 S.E.2d 113	24
1970	Musgrave v. Mutual Savings & Loan Ass'n	174 S.E.2d 820	24
1971	Slade Ex Rel. Slade v. New Hanover County Board of Education	178 S.E.2d 316	20
1970	Koppers Co. v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp.	175 S.E.2d 761	20
1971	West v. JP Stevens Company	183 S.E.2d 876	18

Showing the 15 most-cited of 249 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 William E. Graham on?: William E. Graham was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Sources

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4 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).