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Eric Sidler

Paralegal and Client Advocate

Eric is thrilled to be a recent addition to the Tennessee Justice Center’s staff.  He is excited to bring his research and writing experience- as well as his compassion- to TJC in order to help defend the rights of the poor and needy in Tennessee.

After growing up and attending high school in Apple Valley, Minnesota, Eric ventured south in 2002 to attend Vanderbilt University. 

He received a B.A. in European History with High Honors from Vanderbilt in 2005.  While at Vanderbilt, he served as a site leader for Alternative Spring Break and Alternative Winter Break, leading teams of students on service trips to assist the homeless and inner-city communities in East Nashville, TN, Montreal, Quebec and Phoenix, Arizona.  From 2004 to 2005, he also served as President of Every Nation Campus Ministries, a non-denominational Christian ministry at Vanderbilt. 

In addition to his service and leadership at Vanderbilt, Eric wrote an honors thesis in 2005 entitled An Emancipation of Men: Thomas J. Morgan, the 14th United States Colored Infantry and the Connection Between Bravery, Manhood and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century America, in which he examined issues of race and gender as they related to the experience of black soldiers fighting for the Union cause during the Civil War.

Following his adventures as a “Commodore,” Eric pursued graduate work at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and received a Certificate in Cross-Cultural Campus Ministry in December 2005.  From his studies of world cultures and religions, he developed a passion for engaging in meaningful dialogue with people of all walks of life.

In his spare time, Eric is an aspiring cook who likes to work out, read books about politics, global issues and history, and follow his favorite Minnesota sports teams.

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