Franklin Edward Freeman Jr. (born 1945) is a lawyer and public official in North Carolina, who retired from government service in 2009 as Senior Assistant for Governmental Affairs to Governor Mike Easley.
Between 1971 and 1993, Freeman worked as a prosecutor and as an official at the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts.
In 1992, Freeman was defeated in the Democratic Primary by Ralph Campbell in his bid to be State Auditor.
Campbell became the first African-American to hold a statewide elected executive office in North Carolina.
[3] Hunt later appointed Freeman to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court, but Freeman was defeated in a bid to be elected to a full term on the Court in 2000 by Justice Robert Edmunds Jr.