Edward Thomas Brady (born November 1, 1943)[1] is an American trial attorney and former associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

[2] Born in Brooklyn, Brady enlisted in the United States Army in 1965 as a private and was decorated for his service in the Vietnam War.

Brady retired from the United States Army Reserve as a colonel (O-6) in 1993, having held military police, special operations, aviation command, and staff assignments.

Upon graduating law school in 1978, Justice Brady began in private practice in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

[3] For two decades, Justice Brady's area of practice was litigation in both state and federal courts in Eastern North Carolina.