Robert H. Edmunds Jr.
Template:Short description Template:BLP sources Template:Infobox officeholder Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. (born April 17, 1949) is an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2001 to 2017, immediately following a two-year term on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Early life and education
Born in Danville, Virginia, Edmunds moved to Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 8. He attended Woodberry Forest School and Williams College before graduating with honors from Vassar College with a degree in English.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Edmunds earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975, after which he served two years in the United States Navy.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was awarded an LL.M. degree (Master of Laws in the Judicial Process) from the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville in 2004.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
After working as a district attorney in Guilford County, North Carolina and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, Edmunds served as the presidentially-appointed United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina from 1986 to 1993.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1993, Edmunds entered private practice, joining the firm Stern & Klepfer.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1996, he ran for North Carolina Attorney General but lost to Mike Easley.<ref>Template:Cite FTP</ref> He was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 1998 as a Republican.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2000, he was elected to the North Carolina Supreme Court, defeating Franklin Freeman.<ref>Template:Cite FTP</ref> He was elected as a Republican, though the office became nonpartisan.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Justice Edmunds won a second term to the North Carolina Supreme Court by defeating Wake Forest University law professor Suzanne Reynolds in the 2008 elections.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2016 when running for a third term he was defeated by Michael Morgan.<ref>Morgan defeats Edmunds in N.C Supreme Court race</ref>
Electoral history
2016
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1996
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