Eric Edwards graduated from Guilford College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At Guilford he double majored in History and Criminal Justice while also having a concentration in Political Science. He graduated from Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree. At Campbell he served as a Comments Editor for the Campbell Law Review and also served as a Justice on Campbell's Honor Court. Eric lives in Wake County with his wife and two children and he has practiced in the Raleigh area his entire career.

Eric is in court daily. He routinely represents people in Wake County civil, criminal and family law courts as well as in various counties throughout the state of North Carolina and in the United States federal courts in the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina.

He is admitted to practice law in all state courts in North Carolina and in the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina federal courts. He is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina Bar Association and the Wake County Bar Association.