Education

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
JD, with honors, 2006

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
BA, English and History, 1995

Edward Eldred is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer who focuses his practice on the local district courts and civil and criminal appeals before the North Carolina Appellate Courts and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. 

Ed has been listed in Super Lawyers as an appellate lawyer since 2020.

Ed’s experience includes clerking for two judges at the North Carolina Court of Appeals, practicing with a large firm in Raleigh, managing his own practice for thirteen years, and practicing with a firm in Chapel Hill specializing in criminal defense.

Ed has argued hundreds of matters in the local criminal and civil district courts and briefed over 200 appeals. He has argued before the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Supreme Court and won reversals for clients in a variety of civil and criminal matters, including:

• Criminal judgment after a jury verdict

• Criminal judgment after a guilty plea

• Termination of parental rights

• Civil contempt

• Domestic violence protective order

• Responsible individuals list

• Abuse/neglect/dependency

• Civil summary judgment

Awards

• Super Lawyers, 2020-present

• Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2014-2016