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Richard Dietz
Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court
Background: Dietz's career experience includes working as a partner and associate with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, an associate with Covington & Burling LLP, and a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judge H. Emory Widener, Jr.
At a glance
- Court
- North Carolina Supreme Court
- Position / seat
- Not listed
- Chief justice
- No
- How they joined the court
- Appointed by Gov. Pat McCrory (August 25, 2014); later won election on November 8, 2022
- Appointed by
- Gov. Pat McCrory
- Appointment date
- August 25, 2014
- Took office
- January 1, 2023
- Current term ends
- January 1, 2031
- Next election or retention vote
- Not listed
- Last election
- November 8, 2022
- Party (as listed by Ballotpedia)
- Republican
- Ballotpedia partisanship estimate
- Not listed
- Education
- Bachelor's: Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, 1999
- Law: Wake Forest University School of Law, 2002
- Graduate: Duke University School of Law, 2020
- Prior offices
- North Carolina Court of Appeals (2014 - 2023)
- Profession
- Judge
- How this court's justices are chosen
- Partisan electionVoters elect the justices; candidates' party labels appear on the ballot.
Summary of facts listed on Richard Dietz’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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