Ed Turlington is an American lawyer and Democratic Party activist.
[1] A Democratic Party activist since the age of 15 in Sampson County, Turlington served as a senior aide to Governors Terry Sanford, Jim Hunt, and Lieutenant Governor Robert B. Jordan, as well as the North Carolina Democratic Party's executive director.
With Hunt's backing, Turlington ran unsuccessfully for chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party in 2005, losing to Jerry Meek.
He attended the 1976, 2000 and 2004 Democratic National Conventions as a delegate from North Carolina.
He served as a member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)'s Commission on the Presidential Nominating Calendar in 2005.