Richard Donald Dietz[1] (born February 1, 1977) is a judge on the North Carolina Supreme Court, having been elected in 2022.

Dietz attended both Wake Forest Law School and Shippensburg University on full academic scholarships.

Following his clerkships, Dietz served as a research fellow at Kyushu University in Japan from 2004 to 2006, where he studied comparative and international law issues including the Hague Service Convention and the global implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Dietz also represented a class of hundreds of thousands of Native American in several appeals in the Cobell v. Salazar (1996) litigation involving the U.S. government's mismanagement of Indian trust money.

[6] Dietz was listed in the 2012, 2013, and 2014 editions of North Carolina Super Lawyers magazine as a "Rising Star" in the area of Appellate Law.