Christine Walczyk

Legal career Walczyk practiced business, criminal, and juvenile law with Grafstein & Walczyk, P.L.L.C. in Raleigh.

North Carolina judicial service

Wake County District Court Incumbent Wake County District Court judge Alice Stubbs joined a private practice and retired from her seat in January 2006. Following the vacancy, approximately 3,700 lawyers in the judicial bar serving Wake County voted by secret ballot to select three candidates for Governor Mike Easley's consideration for a temporary appointment.

In 2007, Governor Easley subsequently appointed Walczyk to the high-traffic courtroom position for Wake County, where she replaced judge Donna Stroud, who had been elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was unopposed in her 2012, 2016, and 2020 re-election campaigns, and has served as a district court trial judge in Wake County for 19 years since her initial appointment.

Campaign for North Carolina Court of Appeals Walczyk is campaigning for Seat 3 on the North Carolina Court of Appeals in the 2026 North Carolina judicial elections. She faced fellow Democrat James Whalen, an attorney for Justice Allison Riggs during the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election challenges, in the primary for the seat. She also received endorsements from former Chief Justice Cheri Beasley and former Justice Robin Hudson. Walczyk won the election with 62.35% of the vote to Whalen's 37.65%.

She will face Superior Court judge Craig Collins, a Republican who won his primary, in the general election in November.