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Richard Dietz (born 1977) is an American lawyer and jurist who was appointed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals by Governor Pat McCrory to fill the vacant seat of Robert N. Hunter, Jr.

Dietz graduated from Shippensburg University with a bachelor's degree in finance and graduated first in his class from the Wake Forest University School of Law. Before his appointment to the Court of Appeals, Judge Dietz was a partner on the Appellate & Supreme Court team at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and argued before the United States Supreme Court in the case of Abramski v. United States.