Bryan Norris

Professional career

• Bryan R. Norris, Jr. was sworn in as the newest Alamance County District Court judge on May 20, 2024
• Norris had previously held the role of a law clerk to the North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, who administered his oath of office

Education

Additional information

• Initial dismissal: Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox dismissed the case without prejudice in April 2026 because it was filed in the wrong county and lacked required affidavit verification
• Final ruling: In June 2026, Judge Fox dismissed the case with prejudice — meaning it could not be refiled — calling Norris’s claims “specious, ill-founded, and wholly without merit” and praising the Saline County election officials for performing their duties “in an exemplary fashion”
• Democrat from Burlington, NC, and the second-generation attorney in his family.
• The recount in Saline County confirmed the original results, and Norris’s team alleged procedural issues, including restrictions on attorney access to the recount
• He filled a vacancy created when former judge Brad Allen retired after more than two decades on the bench