Eric L. Levinson

Who is Eric L. Levinson?

Eric L. Levinson is an American jurist and lawyer who is currently seeking a seat as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He also completed a public policy program in comparative economics and politics through the Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C., and an international finance studies program in London, England, as part of his undergraduate requirements.

Levinson served as an N.C. prosecutor and as an N.C. District and Family Court Judge prior to his election to the N.C. Court of Appeals in 2002. In 2006, he unsuccessfully sought a seat on the Supreme Court of North Carolina. In 2007, Levinson resigned from the Court of Appeals, accepting a Bush Administration appointment as the Justice Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq for the United States Department of Justice. Thereafter, he consulted in Kabul, Afghanistan, providing counsel on the establishment of new commercial courts venues. Former N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue appointed Levinson to the North Carolina Superior Court in 2009.