{"campaigns":[{"candidatename":"Robert A. Mullinax, Jr.","chatgptsummary":null,"notes":null,"party":"REP","person":{"biography":"Robert A. Mullinax, Jr. is the Republican candidate for NC District Court, District 36, Seat 04, on the November 3, 2026 ballot, according to the North Carolina State Board of Elections' 2026 candidate filing list [4]. District 36 (formerly numbered District 25, prior to North Carolina's 2019 judicial-district renumbering) serves Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba counties [3][4]. He filed for candidacy on December 11, 2025 [4].\n\nMullinax earned a bachelor's degree in history from Wake Forest University and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1994 [3]. He practiced law as a partner at Mullinax and Mullinax, PLLC in Newton, North Carolina, before his appointment to the bench [3].\n\nIn 2009, then-Governor Bev Perdue (D) appointed Mullinax to the district court in what was then numbered the 25th Judicial District [3]. He won election to a full term in 2010, defeating R. Kelsey Williams with 62.64% of the vote, and was re-elected unopposed in 2014 [3]. Ballotpedia's biographical page has not been updated since his 2014 unopposed re-election and still refers to the seat by its pre-2019 \"25th Judicial District\" number; the seat is the same one now designated District 36, Seat 04 in current NCSBE filings [3][4].\n\n## Sources\n- [3] [Robert A. Mullinax, Jr. - Ballotpedia](https://ballotpedia.org/Robert_A._Mullinax,_Jr.), accessed 2026-07-21\n- [4] North Carolina State Board of Elections, 2026 Candidate Filing List (bulk CSV), accessed 2026-07-21 -- https://s3.amazonaws.com/dl.ncsbe.gov/Elections/2026/Candidate%20Filing/Candidate_Listing_2026.csv","firstname":"Robert","lastname":"Mullinax","middlename":"Alexander","suffix":"JR","token":"0f9b82c26644ab48"},"token":"g9DaCjY54HGHc189"}],"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 36 Seat 04"}