Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. (born April 17, 1949) is an American lawyer, formerly an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Born in Danville, Virginia, Edmunds moved to Greensboro, North Carolina at the age of 8.
[1] Edmunds earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975, after which he served two years in the United States Navy.
[7] In 2000, he was elected to the North Carolina Supreme Court, defeating Franklin Freeman.
[9] Justice Edmunds won a second term to the North Carolina Supreme Court by defeating Wake Forest University law professor Suzanne Reynolds in the 2008 elections.