Daphne Edwards has attained an AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating from Martindale Hubbell.
Daphne Edwards is 1997 graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law. She holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from University of Oregon, and attended North Carolina State University. She served as Clerk to North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Robert Orr and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Proctor Hug, Jr., Ninth Circuit, and as Staff Attorney for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In North Carolina, she has served as Assistant Attorney General for the North Carolina Department of Justice and Assistant District Attorney for the District Attorney’s Office for Alamance County. She has taught law at both Campbell Law School and Golden Gate University School of Law, where she received the 1997 Faculty Award for Academic Excellence.
Daphne is a member of the Family Law and Appellate Practice Sections of the North Carolina Bar Association, the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, the Wake County Bar Association, and North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys. In 2016, she was honored to be included in Business North Carolina Magazine’s Legal Elite Family Law Section. She focuses her practice exclusively on matters relating to divorce and family law and adds to the firm’s successful appellate history.