Paul Martin Newby is an American judge, elected in 2004 to a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. A resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, Newby earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University in 1977 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. After four years in private practice in Kannapolis and a year as a counsel to a real estate deveoper, Newby was appointed Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina in 1985, a post he held for almost twenty years. Following the resignation of North Carolina Supreme Court justice Robert F. Orr, Newby was one of eight candidates, four Republicans and four Democrats, who filed in a special election to fill the vacant seat; he won that race with 23% of the vote for an eight-year term on the court in the statewide judicial elections. In the officially non-partisan race, Newby was endorsed by the North Carolina Republican Party -- the North Carolina Democratic Party refused to endorse any candidate in the race.
