
Ellie joined the Smith Leonard assurance team in 2025. She began her career in public accounting in 2018 with an internship and then full-time position at a national firm in Raleigh. Ellie has experience with a variety of industries in both the public and private sector including lending, financial technology, not-for-profit, and bio-technology.
Originally from Wilmington, North Carolina, she currently resides in Sanford, North Carolina with her husband Christopher and their cats; Henry, Cory, and Chet. In her free time, Ellie enjoys spending time with family and friends, baking, sewing, tending her chickens, and helping in her family’s muscadine grape vineyard.