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Allison Riggs
Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Background: Riggs' career experience includes working as a co-executive director, the chief counsel for voting rights, and a senior staff attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice.
At a glance
- Court
- North Carolina Supreme Court
- Position / seat
- Not listed
- Chief justice
- No
- How they joined the court
- Appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper (D); later won election on November 5, 2024
- Appointed by
- Gov. Roy Cooper (D)
- Appointment date
- Not listed
- Took office
- September 11, 2023
- Current term ends
- December 31, 2032
- Next election or retention vote
- Not listed
- Last election
- November 5, 2024
- Party (as listed by Ballotpedia)
- Democratic
- Ballotpedia partisanship estimate
- Not listed
- Education
- Bachelor's: University of Florida
- Law: University of Florida
- Graduate: University of Florida
- Prior offices
- North Carolina Court of Appeals (Year in office: 2023)
- Profession
- Attorney
- How this court's justices are chosen
- Partisan electionVoters elect the justices; candidates' party labels appear on the ballot.
Summary of facts listed on Allison Riggs’s Ballotpedia page (retrieved Oct 26, 2026) · Photo: Ballotpedia. “Not listed” means Ballotpedia didn’t list it in a form this site could read; check Ballotpedia for the latest.
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