Saturday, May 7, 2011
Time: 9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 AM Meeting
Place: Cowan Creek Amenity Center,
Florence / Georgetown Rooms
Program: Steve Bickerstaff REDISTRICTING TEXAS
Steve Bickerstaff served as Parliamentarian of the Texas Senate and special assistant Texas Attorney General before founding the private law firm of Bickerstaff & Heath in 1980. Bickerstaff retired from the private practice of law in 2001, but remains active as a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Texas School of Law and several nonprofit corporation boards. He is the author of Lines in the Sand: Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay (2007), a book about the controversial 2003 congressional redistricting in Texas, a coauthor of International Election Principles (2009), and an author of more than 25 law journal articles dealing primarily with election law or telecommunications regulation. Bickerstaff was a Fulbright Foundation Scholar teaching in Germany (2000), a Rockefeller Foundation Scholar in Residence at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy (2002), and a member of a Carter Commission team advising on elections in the Peoples Republic of China (2003). His firm, Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgao, Acosta is helping Georgetown and Williamson County work out the changes in districting that are required by the 2010 Census.