Eric L. Levinson is an American jurist, lawyer, and diplomat. He served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and the North Carolina Superior Court. He also was the Justice Attache to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Levinson was a North Carolina prosecutor and an N.C. District and Family Court Judge before his election to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2002. 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 with the United States Department of Justice. In 2009, North Carolina Governor. Beverly Perdue appointed Levinson to the North Carolina Superior Court.
In 2006 and 2014, he unsuccessfully sought a seat on the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Early life
Levinson is a native North Carolinian. He received a BBA in finance, cum laude, from the University of Georgia, where he was an honors program student. While an undergraduate, he a completed the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems through the Fund for American Studies in Washington, D.C. and Georgetown University, and completed an overseas studies program in International Finance hosted by the University of London.
He received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.