Edward Thomas Brady

Biography

Edward Thomas Brady is an associate justice on the N.C. Supreme Court. 

Early Life and Education

Edward Thomas Brady was born Nov. 1, 1943, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Thomas and Virginia Briggs Brady.

He earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1972.

He received a master's degree in criminal justice from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York in 1977. 

He earned a law degree from the California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1978.

He graduated from the U.S. Department of Treasury's Law Enforcement School in Washington, D.C., in October of 1972. 

Military Service

Brady enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1965 and was decorated for his service in Vietnam.

He retired from the Army Reserve in 1993 as a colonel. 

Professional Career

After leaving the Army, Brady worked as a special agent for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 

From 1978 to 2003, he practiced law for the Brady & Brady law firm in Fayetteville, specializing in litigation in state and federal courts. He also represented members of the armed forces in administrative matters and general courts-marial.

Political Career

In 2002, he defeated N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Ralph Walker in the Republican primary and then defeated incumbent Democrat G.K. Butterfield for an eight-year term on the N.C. Supreme Court in his first run for public office.

The position later became nonpartisan.

In 2009, he authored a decision that found the N.C. Medical Board could not prohibit physicians from participating in capital punishment procedures, opening the way for the reinstatement of the death penalty in North Carolina. 

Research and reporting by Ryan Teague Beckwith. 

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