William Edwin McMahan ’66
A native of Asheville, Ed McMahan is the former chair and chief executive officer of Little-McMahan Group, an architectural-engineering, development and construction firm headquartered in Charlotte. He earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial relations from Carolina and has served on the UNC Alumni Board and the Board of Visitors. He completed a four-year term on the UNC Board of Governors before joining the UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees for a four-year term in 2015.
Starting in 1994, McMahan served six terms in the North Carolina House of Representatives, where he chaired numerous committees and study commissions. He is the recipient of Legislator of the Year awards from the North Carolina Public Transportation Commission, American Society of Landscape Architects and the North Carolina Chapter of American Planning Association. Mr. McMahan also received the Pinnacle Award of Excellence from the North Carolina Association of General Contractors.
In 2022 McMahan’s family honored his lifelong love of Tar Heel athletics by creating the Ed McMahan, Sr. Endowed Scholarship to support the men’s golf program.
