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Executive Director
Olivia Turner is an Alabama native who joined the ACLU of Alabama as Executive Director in the fall of 1987. Prior to her work at the ACLU, Olivia worked on a host of public interest issues in Alabama including reproductive freedom, voting rights, jail conditions, and the rights of textile workers suffering from brown lung disease. She has co-founded or served on the Boards of Amnesty International (Montgomery), the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center, the Alabama Prison Project and the Montgomery Peace Project.

Staff Attorney
Allison Neal joined the ACLU-AL staff in the spring of 2006. Allison’s law degree is from Emory University School of Law, and she has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU, Allison founded a campus chapter of the ACLU and served on the board of the Dallas ACLU chapter. She spent her summers during law school working for Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund in Dallas and the ACLU in Georgia and New York.

Office Manager
Joan Boltz has been working for non-profit organizations since the early 1980s. A native of Kansas, she lived in New York’s Hudson Valley for 25 years before moving south. Joan’s non-profit work focused primarily on literacy and senior services before joining the staff of the ACLU-AL in January 2003.

Development and Public Education Associate
Nikki Cox joined the staff of the ACLU of Alabama in the summer of 2007. Nikki earned her bachelor’s degree in finance from Georgia Southern University and her law degree from The University of Georgia School of Law. As a law student, she served as a legal services provider to indigent and homeless clients and interned at the Georgia Office of the Capital Defender. Nikki is the first person to occupy this newly created position with ACLU-AL.

Temporary Law Fellow
Sam Brooke has joined the ACLU-AL staff on a temporary basis from the fall of 2007 until the fall of 2008. Originally from North Dakota, Sam received a joint law degree from the New York University School of Law and master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2006. Sam worked as the staff attorney at the ACLU of Connecticut for a year prior to joining the ACLU-AL. He is admitted in the Connecticut and New York state courts.

Office Assistant
Position open.