Justices – Supreme Court of NC

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Paul Newby, Chief Justice

Anita Earls, Senior Associate Justice

Philip Berger Jr., Associate Justice

Tamara Barringer, Associate Justice

Richard Dietz, Associate Justice

Trey Allen, Associate Justice

Allison Riggs, Associate Justice

Name Time of Service County of Birth
Adams, William J. 1921-1934 Richmond
Allen, William R. 1903-1926 Duplin
Ashe, Thomas 1878-1887 Alamance
Avery, Alphonso C. 1889-1897 Burke
Barnhill, Maurice V. 1937-1956 Halifax
Battle, William Horn 1852-1868 Edgecombe
Beasley, Cheri 2014-2020 Illinois
Billings, Rhoda 1985-1986 Wilkes
Bobbitt, William H. 1954-1974 Wake
Boyden, Nathaniel 1871-1873 Conway, Mass.
Brady, Edward 2002-2010 New York
Branch, Joseph 1966-1986 Halifax
Britt, David M. 1978-1982 Robeson
Brock, Walter E. 1979-1980 Anson
Brodgen, Willis J. 1926-1935 Wayne
Brown, George H. 1905-1920 Beaufort
Browning, Robert R. 1986-1986 Pitt
Burwell, Armistead 1892-1894 Orange
Bynum, William P. 1873-1909 Stokes
Carlton, J. Phil 1979-1983 Edgecombe
Clark, Walter M. 1889-1926 Halifax
Clarkson, Heriot 1923-1942 Kingville, S. C.
Connor, George W. 1924-1938 Wilson
Connor, Henry G. 1903-1909 New Hanover
Cook, Charles A. 1901-1903 Warren
Copeland, J. William 1975-1984 Northampton
Daniel, Joseph J. 1832-1848 Halifax
Davis, Joseph J. 1887-1892 Granville (now Vance)
Davis, Mark A. 2019-2020 Onslow
Denny, Emery B. 1942-1966 Surry
Devin, William A. 1935-1954 Granville
Dick, Robert P. 1869-1872 Guildford
Dillard, John H. 1878-1881 Rockingham
Douglas, Robert M. 1896-1914 Rockingham
Edmunds, Robert H. Jr 2000-2016 Virginia
Ervin, Samuel J. 1948-1954 Burke
Ervin, Samuel J. IV 2014-2022 Burke
Exum, James G. 1974-1995 Greene
Faircloth, William T. 1876-1879
1894-1900
Edgecombe
Freeman, Franklin 2000-2000 Surry
Frye, Henry 1983-2000 Richmond
Furches, David M. 1894-1903 Davie
Gaston, William 1833-1844 Craven
Hall, John 1819-1832 Warren
Henderson, Leonard 1819-1833 Granville
Higgins, Carlisle 1954-1974 Alleghany
Hoke, William A. 1905-1920 Lincoln
Hudson, Robin E. 2007-2022 Georgia
Hunter, Robert. N. Jr. 2014-2014 Guilford
Huskins, J. Frank 1968-1982 Yancey
Jackson, Barbara A. 2010-2018
James, Murray G. 1950-1950 Pender
Johnson, Jefferson D. 1950-1960 Sampson
Lake, I. Beverly Sr. 1965-1978 Wake
Lake, Isaac Beverly, Jr. 1985-1990
1992-1992
1994-2006
Wake
Manly, Matthias E. 1860-1865 Chatham
Manning, James S. 1909-1911 Chatham
Martin, Mark D. 1998-2019 South Carolina
McRae, James C. 1892-1895 Cumberland
Merrimon, Augustus S. 1883-1892 Transylvania
Meyer, Louis B. 1980-1994 Wilson
Mitchell, Burley B. 1982-2000 Wake
Montgomery, Walter 1894-1905 Warren
Moore, Clifton 1959-1966 Pender
Moore, Dan K. 1969-1978 Buncombe
Morgan, Michael R. 2016-2023 Craven
Newby, Paul 2004-Present Guildford
Orr, Robert F. 1995-2004 Norfolk, Va.
Parker, Francis 1986-1986 Mecklenburg
Parker, R. Hunt 1953-1974 Halifax
Parker, Sarah E. 1992-2014 Mecklenburg
Pless, J. Will 1966-1968 Trannsylvania
Reade, Edwin G. 1868-1879 Person
Rodman, William Blount 1868-1879 Beaufort
Rodman, William Blount, Jr. 1956-1965 Beaufort
Ruffin, Thomas Sr. 1829-1852 Virginia
Ruffin, Thomas, Jr. 1881-1883 Orange
Schenk, Michael 1934-1948 Lincoln
Seawell, Aaron A. F. 1938-1950 Moore (now Lee)
Settle, Thomas 1869-1871 Rockingham
Sharp, Susie M. 1962-1979 Edgecombe
Shepherd, James E. 1889-1894 Nansemond Co., Vir.
Smith, William Nathan H. 1878-1889 Hertford
Stacy, Walter P. 1921-1951 Anson
Taylor, John Louis 1819-1829 London, England
Timmons-Goodson, Patricia 2006-2012 South Carolina
Toomer. John D. 1829-1829 New Hanover
Valentine, Itimous T. 1951-1952 Nash
Varser, Lycurgus R. 1925-1925 Gates
Vaughn, Earl W. 1985-1985 Rockingham
Walker, Platt D. 1903-1926 New Hanover
Webb, John 1986-1998 Edgecombe
Whichard, Willis P. 1986-1998 Durham
Winborne, J. Wallace 1937-1962 Chowan
Wynn, James 1998-1998 Martin