NC Supreme Court Justices with terms starting in the 1800's

Justice Name

Years as Associate Justice

Years as Chief Justice
John Louis Taylor none 1819-1829 (1st Chief Justice)
John Hall 1819-1832 none
Leonard Henderson 1819-1829 1829-1833
Archibald D. Murphey 1819-1820 none
John D. Toomer 1829 none
Thomas Ruffin, Sr. 1829-1833, 1859 1833-1852
Joseph John Daniel 1833-1848 none
William Gaston 1833-1844 none
Frederick Nash 1844-1852 1852-1858
Richmond Pearson 1849-1858 1859-1878
William Horn Battle 1848 none
Matthias E. Manly 1859-1865 none
Edwin G. Reade 1865-1879 none
William Blount Rodman 1868-1879 none
Thomas Settle 1868-1876 none
Robert P. Dick 1868-1872 none
Nathaniel Boyden 1871-1873 none
William P. Bynum 1873-1879 none
William T. Faircloth 1876-1879 1895-1900
John H. Dillard 1879-1881 none
Thomas Ashe 1879-1887 none
William Nathan H. Smith 1878 1879-1889
Thomas Ruffin, Jr. 1881-1883 none
Augustus S. Merrimon 1883-1889 1889-1892
Joseph J. Davis 1887-1892 none
James E. Shepherd 1889-1892 1892-1895
Alphonso C. Avery 1889-1897 none
Walter M. Clark 1892-1903 1903-1924
Armistead Burwell 1892-1895 none
James C. McRae 1892-1895 none
David M. Furches 1895-1901 1901-1903
Walter Montgomery 1895-1905 none
Robert M. Douglas 1897-1905 none

 

NC Supreme Court Justices with terms starting in 1900's

Justice Name

Years as Associate Justice

Years as Chief Justice
Charles A. Cook 1901-1903 none
Henry G. Connor 1903-1923 none
Platt D. Walker 1903-1923 none
George H. Brown, Jr. 1905-1920 none
William A. Hoke 1905-1924 1924-1925
James S. Manning 1909-1911 none
William R. Allen 1911-1921 none
William J. Adams 1921-1934 none
Walter P. Stacy 1921-1925 1925-1951
[Robert] Heriot Clarkson 1923-1942 none
George W. Connor 1924-1938 none
Lycurgus R. Varser 1925 none
Willis J. Brodgen 1926-1935 none
Michael Schenk 1934-1948 none
William A. Devin 1935-1951 1951-1954
Maurice V. Barnhill 1937-1954 1954-1956
John Wallace Winborne 1937-1956 1956-1962
Aaron A. F. Seawell 1938-1945 none
Emery B. Denny 1942-1962 1962-1966
Samuel J. Ervin 1948-1954 none
Murray G. James 1950 none
Jefferson D. Johnson, Jr. 1950-1959 none
Itimous T. Valentine 1951-1952 none
Robert Hunt Parker 1952-1966 1966-1969
William H. Bobbitt 1954-1969 1969-1975
Carlisle W. Higgins 1954-1975 none
William Blount Rodman, Jr. 1956-1965 none
Clifton L. Moore 1959-1966 none
Susie M. Sharp 1962-1974 1974-1991
I. Beverly Lake, Sr. 1965-1978 none
J. Will Pless 1966-1968 none
Joseph Branch 1966-1979 1980-1986
J. Frank Huskins 1950-1959 none
Dan K. Moore 1951-1952 none
James G. Exum 1975-1986 1986-1994
J. William Copeland 1975-1984 none
David M. Britt 1978-1982 none
Walter E. Brock 1979-1980 none
J. Phil Carlton 1979-1983 none
Louis B. Meyer 1981-1995 none
Burley Mitchell 1982-1995 1995-1999
Henry Frye 1983-1999 1999-2000
Earl W. Vaughn 1985 none
Rhoda Billings 1985-1986 1986
Robert R. Browning 1986 (appointed) none
Francis Iredell Parker 1986 none
John Webb 1986-1998 none
Willis P. Whichard 1986-1998 none
Isaac Beverly Lake, Jr. 1992, 1995-2001 2001-2006
Sarah Parker 1993-2006 2006-2014
Robert F. Orr 1995-2004 none
Mark D. Martin 1998-2014 2015-2019
James Wynn 1998 none
Franklin Edward Freeman, Jr. 1999-2001 none

 

NC Supreme Court Justices with terms starting in 2000's

Justice Name

Years as Associate Justice

Years as Chief Justice
Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. 2001-2016 none
George Kenneth Butterfield, Jr. 2001-2002 none
Edward Brady 2003-2011 none
Paul Martin Newby 2004-2020 2020-present
Patricia Timmons-Goodson 2006-2012 none
Robin H. Hudson 2007-2022 none
Barbara Jackson 2011-2018 none
Cheri Beasley 2012-2019 2019-2021
Samuel James Ervin, IV 2015-2022 none
Michael Morgan 2017-2023 none
Anita Earls 2018-present none
Mark A. Davis 2019-2020 none
Phil Berger, Jr. 2021-present none
Tamara P. Barringer 2021-present none
Richard Dietz 2023-present none
Trey Allen 2023-present none
Allison Riggs 2023-present none

Citation

"Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court." NCpedia. State Library of NC. Accessed on August 17, 2025. https://test.ncpedia.org/article/justices-north-carolina-supreme-court.