Paul Martin Newby

Paul Martin Newby (born May 5, 1955) is an American judge, who was first elected to a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2004. On January 1, 2021, he was sworn in as the 30th Chief Justice.

In 2023, Newby attended a legal conference at the Royal Hawaiian Resort in Honolulu, Hawaii, for which Newby's travel was funded by the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, but Newby did not report the trip on his annual judicial ethics disclosure form.

Notable cases In 2023, Newby authored a majority opinion for the court that held that partisan gerrymandering was legal in North Carolina, overturning a decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court from the previous year that had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the state.