Shelli Freeland Eddie
Pre-Law Advisor/Adjunct Instructor
Pre-Law Advisor/Adjunct Instructor
Attorney Shelli Freeland Eddie joins NCF as Pre-Law Advisor and Adjunct Professor. She is a Florida licensed attorney with 18 years of legal experience, in both the public and private sectors. She manages her own law firm, The Freeland Eddie Law Group, P.A., and actively serves in the Sarasota County Bar Association on the governance and Council for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) committees, as Chair of the Association’s Pipeline Committee, which is committed to creating and expanding access to legal education and employment for attorneys with diverse backgrounds in the Sarasota/Manatee region.
A graduate of the University of Kentucky, Attorney Freeland Eddie holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a Juris Doctorate degree in Law. She worked as an Assistant State Attorney for the 12th Judicial Circuit, along with work in the private sector, before founding her own law firm, located in the Newtown community near the Ringling College of Art and Design. She also served our community as an elected City Commissioner, Vice Mayor and Mayor for the City of Sarasota for 5 years.
Attorney Freeland Eddie will advise Pre-Law students along with helping connect students to special programs, activities, experiences and preparation that sets them apart from other law school applicants. Through personalized pre-law advising and career coaching opportunities, New College Pre Law students will receive professional and peer support to achieve their academic and future employment goals.
Attorney Freeland Eddie will also be working with NCF Graduate and New College Law Society (NCLS) Founder Rhys Shanahan to coach and prepare the Mock Trial and Moot Court teams for their annual competitions. She intends to work with the local county bar association and NCF alumni to provide attorneys and judges to serve as judges to prepare the students for competition and provide advocacy and litigation skills and techniques through an advocacy ISP (Independent Study Project) offered annually.