Alan Leonard
contact with email aleonard@policehelp.net
"We make our officers instant subject matter experts on legal challenges as they arise in real-time."
Photograph: Alan Leonard at his C-130 “nav station” during Bosnia operations, 1998
Photograph: While serving as an Assistant District Attorney, Alan Leonard tells jurors that parts of the defendant's version of events in a high-profile murder case are "ridiculous."
LEGAL EXPERIENCE:
ATTORNEY, Smith Rodgers, PLLC,(2009-present)
SHERIFF'S ATTORNEY, Henderson County Sheriffs Office, (2005-2009)
DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 30th Prosecutorial District (Haywood, Jackson, Swain, Macon, Clay, Graham and Cherokee Counties) (2003, by appointment of Governor Mike Easley)
29th Prosecutorial District (McDowell, Rutherford, Polk, Henderson and Transylvania Counties) (four elected terms, 1982 to 1994)
-- Advised law enforcement agencies, managed the District Attorney’s Office, prosecuted hundreds of jury trials in Superior Court, specializing in capital murder cases and the prosecution of other crimes of violence, sexual offenses, controlled substance violations and DWI.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY, 29th and 30th Prosecutorial Districts (17 years between 1975 and 2005)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTRUCTOR, Blue Ridge Community College, Henderson County, N.C. (2005 to the present)
Taught in-service legal update for sworn and detention officers.
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor, 1975
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL
B.A. History, 1970
MEMBER
NC State Bar
NC Police Attorney's Association
