John Marsh Tyson (born 14 July 1953) is an American judge, who currently serves as a Recall Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, after completing an eight-year statewide elected term, and as an Emergency Superior Court Judge. At Tyson & Associates, he practiced landlord-tenant, land use, and real property law, civil litigation and criminal defense. Judge Tyson is a Board Certified Specialist by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization for real property law, business, commercial, and industrial transactions, the only North Carolina judge so certified. His more than thirty years of professional experience includes the private practice of law, senior level corporate real estate development and counsel positions, and more than twenty five years as a Professor of Law and author.
Judge Tyson is a member of the North Carolina and Virginia State Bars and a certified mediator and arbitrator. He is a past member of the North Carolina Property Tax Commission and past elected chairman of the Cumberland County Joint Planning Board and the Cumberland Soil and Water Conservation District. Judge Tyson earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina– Wilmington, his J.D., cum laude, from Campbell University School of Law, where he also serves as an adjunct professor of law since 1987, his M.B.A. from Duke University, and his LL.M. in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia, School of Law. Judge Tyson is a frequent CLE presenter and author, and holds an AV-Pre-eminent peer reviewed rating from Martindale Hubbell.
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Judge John M. Tyson was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina on July 14, 1953.
Tyson attended the University of Virginia School of Law, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and earned a Master of Laws in Judicial Process, (LL.M.) degree in May 2004. He attended the New York University School of Law, in New York, for the Appellate Judges' Seminar, during the Summer of 2001. He attended Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, in Durham, North Carolina, and earned his Masters of Business Administration, (M.B.A.) in 1988. He attended Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, in Buies Creek, North Carolina, and earned his Juris Doctor, (J.D.) in 1979. He attended Notre Dame Law School - through the London School of Economic & Political Science, in London, England, during their Summer Program, in 1977. He attended University of North Carolina at Wilmington, in Wilmington, North Carolina, and earned his Bachelor of Arts, (B.A.) degree with an English and Secondary Education emphasis, as a member of the Dean's List, in 1974. He graduated from high school at Terry Sanford High School, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1971.
In 2000, Tyson was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals. His term began in January 2001.
He currently serves as a recall judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law (Campbell University).
Tyson practiced law in Fayetteville from 1993 until 1996 and from 1996 until his election to the Court, with a brief tenure as the Senior Vice President of Development for Blockbuster Entertainment Group in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in 1996.
He worked as a Real Estate Director and Counsel for Revco Drug Stores, Inc., from 1982 to 1993 and in similar capacities for Family Dollar Stores, Inc., from 1980 to 1982.
He served as a North Carolina Probation/Parole Officer for the North Carolina Department of Correction, from 1975 to 1976. He has also been a public school teacher and deputy sheriff in Cumberland County.
Bar Admissions
Professional Organizations
Getting Paid, Avoiding Conflicts, and Supervising Staff: Fee Arrangements, Multi-party Representation, and Delegation of Duties, The North Carolina State Bar Journal, 16 No. 2 (Summer, 2011).
Tyson was appointed to the North Carolina Judicial Conference Committee on Compensation and Benefits by the Chief Justice of North Carolina (2002–2008). He was appointed to the North Carolina Property Tax Commission by the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, where he served from 1997 to 1999. He was appointed to the Legislative Research Committee on Private Property Rights by the President Pro Tempore of the North Carolina Senate served in 1995. He was a member of the Legislative Research Committee on Impact Fees, Exactions and Dedications by the President Pro-tem of the Senate in 1994. He was elected to the Cumberland County Soil & Water Conservation District, where he served as Vice Chairman & later Chairman of the Board, and served from 1992 to 1996. He was appointed to the Cumberland County Joint Planning and Zoning Board, where he was elected Vice-Chairman and later Chairman of the Board, and served from 1993 to 2001.
He was commissioned as Captain, promoted to Major, Lieutenant Colonel and served as Colonel and Staff Judge Advocate for the North Carolina State Defense Militia, under the command of the Adjutant General of North Carolina from 1987 to 1996, and is currently in inactive reserve. He served as a Colonel and Staff Judge Advocate for the United States Service Command in Division III, (a volunteer non-profit disaster relief organization), from 1999 to 2004.