Martin B. (Marty) McGee has served as the Senior Resident Superior Court Judge in Judicial District 25 (Cabarrus County, North Carolina) since 2015. In 2014, Judge McGee was appointed by North Carolina’s Governor as one of North Carolina’s Special Superior Court Judges. Judge McGee also served as a District Court Judge from October 2000 until January 2014.
As a District Court Judge, Judge McGee served on the Education Committee for the Association of District Court Judges and regularly taught continuing judicial and legal education courses. As a Superior Court Judge, he has held court in more than 40 counties. He has presided over various types of civil matters, including being appointed by the Chief Justice to three three-judge panels to address constitutional challenges to laws passed by the General Assembly. He has also presided over criminal cases ranging from first-degree murder to traffic violations.
In the fall of 2025, Judge McGee was selected as a Duke Law RAILS Fellow. His Fellowship Project is to develop a model administrative (standing) order as a framework for the ethical use of GenAI in legal proceedings.
Judge McGee has served or is serving on numerous statewide committees, including the Chief Justice’s Remote Proceedings Task Force (co-chair), the Juvenile Jurisdiction Advisory Committee (Raise the Age Committee), and the NC Trial Courts Time Standards Committee.
He also currently serves on the Judicature Editorial Board, the North Carolina Judicial College Advisory Board at the UNC School of Government, and the WashU Law AI Board of Advisors.
Prior to becoming a judge, he represented clients in courts ranging from Small Claims Court to the Supreme Court of the United States. He worked on four matters that were argued before the Supreme Court of the United States and sat second-chair in one of those cases.
Judge McGee is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D., and Duke University School of Law, LL.M. He is married to Debin McGee, and they have two daughters, Dorothy and Eleanor.
