Carlisle Wallace Higgins (1889–1980) was a North Carolina attorney and jurist. He was a native of Alleghany County, North Carolina.

Higgins served in both houses of the North Carolina General *embly before being appointed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934–1947). In 1946 he became a prosecutor for the war crimes trials in *an. Higgins later served as an *ociate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1954–1974). He is among the longest-serving justices in the history of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Upon his retirement from the Court, he joined the law firm of Tharrington Smith, co-founded by his former law clerk, Wade Smith. He remained with the Raleigh-based firm until his death in 1980.

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