Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court

North Carolina Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest appellate court. Until the creation of the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 1960s, it was the state's only appellate court. The Supreme Court consists of six associate justices and one chief justice, although the number of justices...

 and judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals

North Carolina Court of Appeals

The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state of North Carolina. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating groups of three...

 are elected to eight-year terms in statewide judicial elections. In 2006, all
these races were non-partisan. The 2006 congressional
elections and the 2006 North Carolina
legislative elections were held on the same day, November 7, 2006.

The result was that all incumbents except Linda Stephens

Linda Stephens

Linda Stephens is an American judge, currently serving on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was first appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. Mike Easley in January 2006 and lost her seat in the general election of November 2006. Gov...

 were elected (if they had been appointed) or re-elected. All the candidates supported by FairJudges.nethttp://fairjudges.net/about.html, the first independent group to get involved in North Carolina's non-partisan judicial elections, won.

Supreme Court (Chief Justice)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Sarah Parker Sarah Parker Sarah Parker is an American judge, currently the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.-Education and career:...	1,138,346	67%
Rusty Duke Rusty Duke Russell "Rusty" Duke is a judge of the North Carolina Superior Court in Pitt County, North Carolina for the past fourteen years, who unsuccessfully ran for the office of Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in November 2006...	568,980	33%

Supreme Court (Timmons-Goodson seat)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Patricia Timmons-Goodson Patricia Timmons-Goodson Patricia 'Pat' Timmons-Goodson is an American judge, currently an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court....	953,976	58%
Eric Levinson	682,641	41%

Supreme Court (Martin seat)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Mark Martin Mark Martin (judge) Mark D. Martin is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. With over fifteen years of service in the North Carolina judiciary, Martin is the only active member of the state judiciary with experience on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the North Carolina Court of...	1,000,792	62%
Rachel Lea Hunter	601,676	38%

Supreme Court (Wainwright seat)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Robin E. Hudson Robin E. Hudson Robin E. Hudson is an American jurist, currently serving as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.Born in DeKalb County, Georgia, after studying philosophy and psychology at Yale University, Hudson earned a law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1976...	806,861	51%
Ann Marie Calabria Ann Marie Calabria Ann Marie Calabria is an American jurist, currently a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Calabria studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she earned a B.A., then at Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, where she earned a...	786,310	49%

Justice George L. Wainwright, Jr.

George L. Wainwright, Jr.

George L. Wainwright, Jr. is an American judge, who recently retired as an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court....

 retired, making this an open seat. Candidates Bill Gore, Jill Cheek, and Beecher "Gus" Gray were eliminated in a May primary election

Primary election

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Court of Appeals (Hunter seat)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Robert C. Hunter Robert C. Hunter Robert C. Hunter is an American jurist, currently a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.Hunter, born in Marion, North Carolina, earned a degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1966 before earning his Juris Doctor degree from the same...	903,691	58%
Kris Bailey	652,733	42%

Candidate Bill Constangy was eliminated in a May primary election.

Court of Appeals (Stephens seat)

Candidate	Popular Vote	Pct
Donna Stroud Donna Stroud Donna S. Stroud is an American lawyer and jurist who was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the November 2006 general election. From 2004 through the end of 2006, Stroud served as a state district court judge. Her bachelor's and law degrees are from Campbell University and its...	774,819	50.1%
Linda Stephens Linda Stephens Linda Stephens is an American judge, currently serving on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was first appointed to the Court of Appeals by Gov. Mike Easley in January 2006 and lost her seat in the general election of November 2006. Gov...	771,353	49.9%

Candidate Christopher L. (Chris) Parrish was eliminated in a May primary election.