North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership Names Robert Edmunds to Board of Directors

North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership Names Robert Edmunds to Board of Directors

Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP is pleased to announce that The Honorable Robert H. Edmunds Jr. has been selected to the North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership board of directors.

Edmunds is an attorney in Smith Moore Leatherwood’s Greensboro office and a member of the firm’s Appellate group. Edmunds helps clients navigate complex criminal and civil appeals in state and federal court, drawing from his breadth of experience in government and the private sector. He is board certified as a specialist in appellate practice, state criminal law and federal criminal law.

Edmunds served as an elected North Carolina Supreme Court Justice for 16 years and two years as an elected judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Throughout his career, he has litigated more than 100 jury trials to verdict.

The North Carolina Institute of Political Leadership is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization that provides leadership development for select individuals who have been identified as having the potential to become future public leaders. Founded in 1974, the organization’s purpose is to produce better qualified, ethical, accessible and more representative public leaders in North Carolina’s state and local governments.