State Judicial Candidate Profile

Judicial Candidate Profile Assignment Instructions / Rubric

This assignment should be an interesting one for you guys! There are currently ten candidates running statewide election campaigns for the North Carolina Supreme Court, and the North Carolina Court of Appeals this year. There are a few races with primary elections in March, and all of them have a general election this November! Your task for this assignment is to write up a short paper nothing formal, just more than two paragraphs on one of the candidates of your choice! Pick one of the ten and then take a look at the following resources:

• 2026 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES POSSIBILITIES FOR ASSIGNMENT.docx
• https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/upcoming-election
• https://www.ncsbe.gov/campaign-finance
• https://www.ncsbe.gov/voting/your-voter-record

Your paper should include a brief sketch of the candidate including these specific things:

• Their educational background (college and law school attended at a minimum);
• Their prior legal experience if any, and their prior judicial experience, if any;
• A statement of their judicial philosophy as they express it;
• A news story (traditional news media in other words not social media comments by individual people) about the candidate; &
• Some case or legal controversy that they have been involved in that you can find mentioned online (either as a judge or a lawyer, or even a legislator).
• I have included a link to the State Campaign Finance website, but it may be the case that there are not reports yet for some of the candidates but if there are, feel free to look around there and if there is anything you find interesting feel free to add that as well (this is sort of a bonus!).