Ed Tarpley is a criminal defense attorney in Alexandria, Louisiana, who served as district attorney for the 35th Judicial District, Grant Parish, from 1991 to 1997. Ed graduated from LSU Law School in 1979. He has been  a member of the Board of Governors and House of Delegates for the LSBA, the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Crossroads American Inn of Court of Alexandria-Pineville. He also is a member of the Alexandria Rotary Club and was a Delegate to the 2016 and 2024  Republican National Conventions.  

Ed is a defender of the cause of liberty and a frequent speaker on the Constitution and Bill of Rights. He was the leading advocate for the adoption of an Amendment to the Louisiana Constitution in 2018, which restored the unanimous criminal jury verdict law.