Ed Darrell now lives, writes and politics in Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Darrell comes to teaching late, with a wealth of experience in government at the federal, state and local levels, and rather deep experience in working in and consulting for large corporations in legal matters, management and travel. He spent his childhood and youth in small towns in Idaho and Utah. Mr. Darrell holds a B.S. in Mass Communication from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and a J.D. with emphasis in environmental protection and land development from the National Law Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Mr. Darrell also did graduate work in rhetoric and speech communication at the University of Arizona, Tucson, where he taught Business and Professional Communication and coached with the award-winning debate team.
Mr. Darrell’s work experience includes years with the U.S. Senate Staff, where he worked for Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and held positions on Judiciary Committee and Labor and Human Resources Committee staff (now Health, Education, Labor and Pensions). He directed the creation of the first Senate committee press operation, at Labor and Human Resources after 1981. On Senate staff he aided, then led the effort to compensate downwind victims of fallout from U.S. atomic bomb tests, getting the issue to its first ever vote in the Senate (but leaving staff before a final bill could be passed, with the great work of Nancy Taylor). In the executive branch, Mr. Darrell was public affairs director for the President’s Commission on Americans Outdoors, chaired by then-Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, and Director of Information Services for the Department of Education at the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), which made him the publisher of education research for the Department. In private business, Mr. Darrell served as real estate counsel for AMR Corporation, the parent of American Airlines, manager in the Transportation Group in the national consulting practice at Ernst & Young, LLP, and as a due diligence coordinator for PrimeCo PCS, and then Real Estate Manager after PrimeCo was absorbed into the partnership operating as Verizon Wireless. He also maintained a solo law practice at various times.
In addition to federal government positions, Mr. Darrell served on the Utah Wilderness Commission in the 1970s, and the Beltwoods Management Commission in Maryland, in the 1980s. He served on the Duncanville, Texas, Sign Board, and then the Planning and Zoning Commission. He was active in student government in high school and college, and was a member of the Faculty Senates at the University of Utah and the University of Arizona. He has been active in PTAs at elementary, middle, and high schools. He remains an active Scouter, now in the Wisdom Trail District of Circle 10 Council, BSA, as membership committee chairman. Mr. Darrell was awarded the Silver Beaver in 2009. Mr. Darrell and his wife, Kathryn, have two sons, one graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, and one graduated from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The Darrells reside in Dallas with their dachsund-plus Peanut, and cats Luna Lovegood and Cap'n Jack Sparrow.
In Texas, Mr. Darrell has taught business ethics and business law at local universities. He is certified to teach grades 8-12 in social studies, and has taught economics, U.S. history, world history, street law, and psychology. Edarrell (talk) 17:48, 14 March 2013 (UTC)