North Carolina Judicial Appointment Amendment (2012)

Not on Ballot
This measure was not put on an election ballot

A North Carolina Judicial Appointment Amendment did not make the 2012 ballot in North Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment.

The measure would have replaced the present practice of selecting Justices and Judges of the Appellate Division and Judges of the Superior Court by gubernatorial appointment.

Text of measure

The proposed measure would have asked voters:

Constitutional amendment to replace the present practice of selecting Justices and Judges of the Appellate Division and Judges of the Superior Court by gubernatorial appointment, followed by elections, with a method by which (i) two candidates for Justice and Judge will be nominated by a nominating commission, the Governor will appoint one of them, and at the next election the voters will choose in a nonpartisan election between the two persons, (ii) at the end of the term of a Justice or Judge who has successfully won an election, the question of the Justice's or Judge's retention in office is submitted for approval or disapproval by nonpartisan vote of the people, (iii) provision is made for the case of withdrawal of a candidate before the election, and (iv) provision is made for appointment of the Chief Justice from among the Associate Justices.

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Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the North Carolina Constitution

The North Carolina Constitution, Section 4 of Article XIII, requires that a legislatively referred amendment go on the ballot after it is approved by a 60% vote of each house of the North Carolina State Legislature.

See also

Suggest a link

• 2012 ballot measures
• North Carolina 2012 ballot measures

External links

• Senate Bill 458 (full text)

Additional reading

• Lincoln Tribune, "NCGA special session ends with amendments on the table," September 19, 2011