District Court Judge, District 26, Seat 21 (Mecklenburg County)

Rhonda Patterson-Wrighten, who appeared on earlier ballots as Rhonda Patterson, was appointed to the Mecklenburg County district court by Governor Roy Cooper in September 2022 and elected to the seat that November²³. She previously ran her own firm, The Patterson Law Office, and worked at the law firms K and L Gates, Alston and Bird and Offit Kurman²⁴. She is unopposed on the November 2026 ballot in this partisan race¹.

• District Court Judge, 26th Judicial District, since her 2022 appointment; she says she has spent the last three years primarily in family and domestic violence courtrooms, both civil and criminal²⁴
• Founder and managing attorney, The Patterson Law Office, PLLC; partner, Offit Kurman; associate, K and L Gates and Alston and Bird; adjunct instructor, Johnson C. Smith University's Metropolitan College²⁴
• B.A. in communication studies and romance languages, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003; J.D. with honors, UNC School of Law, 2006⁴
• Appointed by Governor Roy Cooper on September 2, 2022 to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Rickye McKoy-Mitchell². Elected without opposition to Seat 21 on November 8, 2022, for the term beginning January 1, 2023³. Both 2026 primaries were canceled and she is unopposed in November³¹.