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Anita Earls
Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Background: She also served as the director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law's Voting Rights Project and as a deputy assistant attorney general for civil rights under President Bill Clinton (D).
At a glance
- Court
- North Carolina Supreme Court
- Position / seat
- Not listed
- Chief justice
- No
- How they joined the court
- Elected (first elected 2018)
- Appointed by
- Not applicable (elected)
- Appointment date
- Not applicable (elected)
- Took office
- January 1, 2019
- Current term ends
- December 31, 2026
- Next election or retention vote
- November 3, 2026 (general election)
- Last election
- March 3, 2026
- Party (as listed by Ballotpedia)
- Democratic
- Ballotpedia partisanship estimate
- Strong Democrat (2020 study of justices' pre-court partisan activity)
- Education
- Bachelor's: Williams College
- Law: Yale Law School
- Prior offices
- Not listed
- Profession
- Founder and Executive Director of nonprofit
- How this court's justices are chosen
- Partisan electionVoters elect the justices; candidates' party labels appear on the ballot.
Summary of facts listed on Anita Earls’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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