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North Carolina Superior Court 26

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The North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26 resides in North Carolina. It is part of the fifth division of the superior courts. It serves Mecklenburg County. North Carolina House Bill 259 restructured the superior court and district courts of the state in 2024. The law changed the name of the court from North Carolina Superior Court Districts 26A, 26B, 26C, 26D, 26E, 26F, 26G, and 26H to North Carolina Superior Court 26.[1]

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Jurisdiction

This court holds the following jurisdiction:[2]

“ Superior Courts

The Superior Courts are the general jurisdiction trial courts for the state. All felony criminal cases, civil cases involving more than $10,000 and misdemeanor, and infraction appeals from District Court are tried in Superior Court. A jury of 12 hears the criminal cases. In the civil cases, juries are often waived. The Superior Court is divided into eight divisions and 46 districts across the state. Judges are elected to 8-year terms, and rotate every six months between the districts within their division.[3]

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Judges


Office Name Party Date assumed office
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26A Donald Cureton Democratic January 1, 2023
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26B Matt Osman Republican January 1, 2023
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26C George Bell Republican January 1, 2019
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26D David Strickland Democratic January 1, 2023
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26E Reggie McKnight Democratic December 10, 2021
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26F Karen Eady-Williams Democratic January 1, 2019
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26G Carla Archie Nonpartisan January 1, 2019
North Carolina 5th Superior Court Division Judicial District 26H Louis A. Trosch Jr. Democratic January 1, 2019


Elections

North Carolina is one of 43 states that hold elections for judicial positions. To learn more about judicial selection in North Carolina, click here.

Selection method

See also: Judicial selection in the states
See also: Partisan election of judges

The 98 judges of the North Carolina Superior Courts are chosen in partisan elections to serve eight-year terms. From 1998 through 2016, elections for superior court judges were nonpartisan; however, on March 23, 2017, the North Carolina legislature changed the method of election to partisan elections by overriding Gov. Roy Cooper's veto of HB 100. This change was effective with the 2018 superior court elections.[4][5][6][7][8]

The chief judge of each superior court is chosen by seniority.[9]

Qualifications
To serve on a superior court, a judge must be:

  • "learned in the law" and
  • under the age of 72 (retirement at 72 is mandatory).[9]

Judicial elections in North Carolina

See also: North Carolina judicial elections

North Carolina is one of 11 states that uses partisan elections to select judges and does not use retention elections for subsequent terms. To read more about how states use judicial elections to select judges across the country, click here.

Primary election

The judges of the North Carolina Superior Courts are chosen through partisan elections. Judges are elected to eight-year terms and must face re-election if they wish to serve again.[10]

The judges of the North Carolina District Courts are chosen through partisan elections. District judges serve four-year terms, after which they must run for re-election if they wish to remain on the court.[11][10]

See also



External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly, "North Carolina House Bill 259," accessed February 22, 2024
  2. ↑ North Carolina Judicial Branch, "Judicial Branch," accessed May 19, 2023
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  4. ↑ American Judicature Society, "Methods of Judicial Selection: North Carolina," archived October 3, 2014
  5. ↑ General Assembly of North Carolina, "Session Law 2015-292: House Bill 8," October 29, 2015
  6. ↑ The News & Observer, "Veto override means voters will know judges’ party affiliations," March 23, 2017
  7. ↑ General Assembly of North Carolina, "House Bill 100," accessed May 5, 2017
  8. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly, "Session Law 2018-121, House Bill 717," accessed August 30, 2019
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named general
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | School of Government, "History of North Carolina Judicial Elections," August 2020
  11. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly, "North Carolina Constitution - Article IV," accessed September 20, 2021 (Section 19)

North Carolina courts

Federal courts:

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: Eastern District of North Carolina, Middle District of North Carolina, Western District of North Carolina • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: Eastern District of North Carolina, Middle District of North Carolina, Western District of North Carolina

State courts:

Supreme Court of North Carolina • North Carolina Court of Appeals • North Carolina Superior Courts • North Carolina District Courts

State resources:

Courts in North Carolina • North Carolina judicial elections • Judicial selection in North Carolina


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