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Image StarSenior Resident Superior Court Judge Richard D. Boner
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge W. Robert Bell
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge Yvonne M. Evans
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge Linwood O. Foust
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge Eric L. Levinson
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge H. William Constangy
Image StarResident Superior Court Judge Hugh B. Lewis
Image StarSpecial Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases Calvin E. Murphy
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Superior Court Judges
 
Superior Court Judges are attorneys who are elected for each district in non-partisan elections for eight-year terms. Regular superior court judges must reside in the district in which they are elected, but rotate from one district to another within their division.

Special and emergency judges may also be assigned to particular judicial districts by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. The Senior Resident Superior Court Judge has the most seniority of the superior court judges in the district and is responsible for carrying out various administrative duties.

The Superior Court has jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases. Generally, civil cases involving more than $10,000 in money and a few special categories of cases, such as those involving appeals from administrative agencies and constitutional issues, are tried in Superior Court. In criminal cases, the Superior Court has exclusive jurisdiction over all felonies and over misdemeanors appealed from a conviction in District Court.

The Senior Resident Superior Court Judge is Richard D. Boner.
Judge Boner, a native of Lexington NC, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received an A.B. in Journalism. He earned his Juris Doctor form UNC School of Law. Before joining the bench, he worked three years as a Mecklenburg County Assistant Public Defender, two years as Charlotte Assistant City Attorney, and was in private practice for seven years. He was appointed a Special Superior Court Judge in 1987, elected to District Court in 1988, where he served for ten years, and elected a Resident Superior Court Judge in 1998. He was named Senior Resident Superior Court Judge in 2010.

Additional Superior Court Judges are:
    Hon. W. Robert Bell
    Hon. Yvonne Mims Evans
    Hon. Linwood O. Foust
    Hon. Eric L. Levinson
    Hon. H. William Constangy
    Hon. Hugh B. Lewis
    Hon. Calvin E. Murphy,Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases
 
  
 
   
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