Robert H. Edmunds, Jr.

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Robert Holt Edmunds, Jr. (b. April 17, 1949) is an American judge, currently an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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. 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. 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.

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. In 1993, Edmunds entered private practice, joining the firm Stern & Klepfer. In 1996, he ran for North Carolina Attorney General but lost to Mike Easley. He was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 1998 as a Republican. In 2000, he was elected to the North Carolina Supreme Court, defeating Franklin Freeman. He was elected as a Republican, though the office is now nonpartisan.^[1]

Justice Edmunds lives in Greensboro, North Carolina. He and his wife Linda have two adult sons.

Justice Edmunds is seeking re-election to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2008. He has been endorsed by four of the five living former Chief Justices of the North Carolina Supreme Court: Jim Exum, Rhoda Billings, I. Beverly Lake, Jr. and Burley Mitchell. [1]

Justice Edmunds has written numerous legal articles, most recently "How Can You Defend These People?" for the North Carolina State Bar Journal in the fall of 2003.