{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"C. Todd Roper","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"DEM","person":{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nChristopher Todd Roper, known as Todd Roper, is a District Court Judge for Judicial District 18, which serves Chatham and Orange counties in North Carolina. He was appointed by Governor Roy Cooper on November 6, 2020, filling a seat created by a vacancy in the district.\n\n## Background and education\nRoper grew up in Snellville, Georgia, and graduated from South Gwinnett High School in 1981. He attended the University of Alabama on a football scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Science in Commerce and Business Administration in 1986. He then attended Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, receiving his Juris Doctorate in 1989. He was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1989 and to the North Carolina and Alabama bars in 1990.\n\n## Career\nRoper began his legal career in Siler City at the firm Moody, Moody and Williams in 1989, focusing on general practice including personal injury, criminal defense, real estate, estates, and family law. He became a partner in the firm, which later became Moody, Williams Roper and Lee, LLP, and maintained that practice in Chatham and Orange counties for thirty years before his appointment to the bench. During that time he handled thousands of cases across the range of District Court matters including juvenile, civil disputes, criminal defense, child custody, child support, domestic violence, and magistrate appeals.\n\n## Family\nHe is married to Kimberly Dawn Roper. They have three daughters.\n\n## Sources\n- [1] [About \u2013 Judge Todd Roper](https://judgetoddroper.com/about/)\n- [2] [Todd Roper sworn in as district court judge \u2013 Chatham Journal](https://chathamjournal.com/2020/11/07/todd-roper-sworn-in-as-district-court-judge/)","firstname":"Christopher","lastname":"Roper","middlename":"Todd","suffix":null,"token":"14d02b469692c049"},"token":"OTEBhxDg7cM_XEwS"}],"choices":null,"description":null,"district":null,"districtgroup":null,"districtgroupname":null,"districtname":null,"job_type":null,"o.office":"district_court_judge","office":"district_court_judge","officedescription":"In North Carolina, a district court judge presides over the high-volume lower trial court \u2014 misdemeanors, smaller civil cases, and most family and juvenile matters (custody, support, domestic violence, abuse/neglect). Many litigants appear without lawyers.","officequalities":"- Judge of a high-volume district court \u2014 misdemeanors, smaller civil cases, and family and juvenile matters, often with unrepresented parties.\n- Judicial temperament: the willingness to listen, deliberate, and apply the law dispassionately to people whose lives are deeply affected by the outcome.\n- Impartiality and ethics under the North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct, including recusal when conflicts arise.\n- Working knowledge of family, juvenile, and criminal procedure and the precedent that controls.\n- Efficient management of a heavy docket while honoring due process.\n- Accessibility and clarity for the many who appear without counsel.","officeterm":4,"officetitle":"District Court Judge","partisan":1,"pgr":"general","quantity":1,"referendum":null,"source":null,"title":"Nc District Court Judge District 18 Seat 01"}