Sunday, April 20, 2008

Justice Robert H. Edmunds, Jr. Biography

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Associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, January 2001-present. Associate judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals 1999 - January 2001. Partner, Stern & Klepfer, L.L.P. General private practice 1993 - 1998.

United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina,1986-1993. Managed and supervised office responsible for representing United States in Federal Court. Handled variety of criminal and civil cases, overseeing investigations, presenting matters for the United States Grand Jury, trials, briefing and arguing appeals.

Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, 1982- 1986. Responsible for coordinating investigation, preparation, and trial of criminal violations, including drug trafficking, food stamp fraud, credit card fraud, gray-market smuggling of automobiles, bank fraud, bank robbery, firearm violation, social security crimes and other federal offenses. Briefed and argued appeals. Handled Federal probation and parole violations.

Assistant district attorney, Eighteenth Judicial District, Guilford County, N.C., 1978-1982. Instructor at Attorney General's Advocacy Institute. Career Criminal Prosecution Unit, Instructor at New Prosecutor's School at Institute of Government in Chapel Hill.

North Carolina State Bar, admitted 1975.

Virginia State Bar, admitted 1977.

United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina.

United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

North Carolina Bar Association, Appellate Rules Study Committee.

American Bar Association.

North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (former member).

Member, Greensboro Bar Association; secretary, 1997-1996.

National Association of Former United States Attorneys.

Greensboro Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, (former member), Board of Directors, 1997-1998.

Board-certified specialist in State and Federal Criminal Law, 1993-present, and Criminal Appellate Practice, 1994-present.

Attorney General's Advisory Subcommittee on Guideline Sentencing, 1987-93; chair, 1991-93.

 Member, Attorney General's Subcommittee on Controlled Substances, 1987-93.

Bar Cares, Board of Directors, 2001-current.

1987 Prosecutor of the Year.

Third place, International Association of Credit Card Investigators.

1988 Prosecutor of the Year, Carolinas Chapter of the International Association of Credit Card Investigators.

1990 Certificate of Appreciation from the Drug Enforcement Administration for outstanding contributions in the field of drug law enforcement.

 1993 Awards from United States Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Customs Service and North Carolina Department of Justice.

"How Can You Defend Those People?" North Carolina State Bar Journal (Fall, 2003)

Analyzing the Tension Between Prosecutors and Probation Officers Over Fact Bargaining, Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 8, No 6 (May/June, 1996)

The Need for Predictable, But Not Mandatory, Sentences, Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 8, No. 1 (July/August, 1995).