Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: All Things Judicial
Episode: Creating a Unified Court System: Judicial Reform in the 1960s
Description: In this episode, we focus on the North Carolina judicial system reforms of the 1960s. These reforms created a unified court system that included newly created District Courts, Court of Appeals, and the Administrative Office of the Courts (NCAOC). In the interview, former NCAOC Director and Supreme Court of North Carolina Associate Justice Franklin Freeman interviews two men who helped implement these reforms: Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr. and Senator Lindsay C. Warren, Jr."The effect of the implementation of the District Court was to abolish all of the courts beneath the Superior Courts – county courts, city co...