Edward Still is a civil rights, employment rights and elections attorney in Birmingham, Alabama. He has served as a law professor at the Birmingham School of Law teaching constitutional law, as a member of the Alabama Advisory Committee for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as general counsel for the Alabama Democratic Party, and as director of the Voting Rights Project for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He is owner of Edward Still Law Firm LLC and is also general counsel for Anniston Community Education Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping students in the toxic-pollution impacted area of Anniston, Alabama, attend school and succeed in the educational arena.
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