President

Bill Redick has worked with The Justice Project Education Fund since 2004. Bill was a staff attorney on the National Advisory Commission for Criminal Justice Standards and Goals in Washington D.C. after graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law and being admitted to the practice of law in 1970. He was Director of the Treatment Alternative to Street Crime Project that was administered by the Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office (1976-1978).

Bill has practiced law in Tennessee since 1978, emphasizing criminal defense, and, since 1988, has practiced almost exclusively death penalty defense representation. He was an assistant federal public defender for the Middle District of Tennessee (1985-1988) and Director of the Capital Case Resource Center of Tennessee (1988-1995). Bill also served as Chairman of the Death Penalty Committee of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (TACDL) (1984-1995). In 1995, Bill won TACDL’s annual Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. award for outstanding work in the death penalty arena and in 2003, he received the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Legal Service Award.

Bill may be reached at (615) 255-7369 or bredick@tnjusticeproject.org