Eric L. Levinson is an American jurist and lawyer. In 2014, he unsuccessfully sought 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 Juris Doctor 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. Judicial and Prosecution Experience Judge Levinson joined the District Attorney’s Office in Cabarrus and Rowan Counties, N.C. as a felony prosecutor following law school, and he prosecuted drug, property, sexual assault, and homicide offenders until he was elected to the N.C. judiciary in 1996 as a District and Family Court Judge. In this role, he was recognized for implementing best-practices in our criminal and child support enforcement courts and became a N.C. Certified Juvenile Court Judge. In 2002, Levinson was elected statewide as one of fifteen members of the N.C. Court of Appeals in Raleigh, where he served as an Associate Judge and the Court's youngest member and authored hundreds of legal opinions in disputes and lawsuits concerning virtually every area of the law. In 2007, Levinson was appointed by the Bush Administration as the Justice Attache to Iraq for the U.S. Department of Justice. As Justice Attache, Levinson managed the U.S. government's diplomatic relationship with the Iraqi judiciary and its Chief Justice, Medhat al Mahmoud, and advanced the establishment of Major Crimes Courts where terrorists were prosecuted. Although stationed at the U.S. Embassy inside the International Zone, Levinson traveled to other population centers and provinces throughout Iraq, meeting with military and civilian leaders who were