Eric Redman, is an American author and businessman.

Redman is a former legislative assistant to the late Senator Warren G. Magnuson and served him for two years circa 1971. He wrote the book “The Dance of Legislation”, a descriptive account of a single bill establishing the National Health Service Corps

National Health Service Corps

The National Health Service Corps is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, division of Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Clinician Recruitment and Service....

 along its two-year trip through Congress. The book was initially published in 1973, with a second edition in 2001. Redman has also written for a variety of other publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, Open Spaces, and many other publications, and was once a Contributing Editor of Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a US-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J...

. His article on the climate effects of soot, "A Dirty Little Secret," appeared in the May–June 2005 issue of Legal Affairs

Legal Affairs

Legal Affairs was an American magazine that was launched under the auspices of Yale Law School, and which later became an independent non-profit venture with an educational mission. As the first general interest legal magazine, Legal Affairs featured stories that centered on the intersection of law...

.

Redman studied at Harvard College

Harvard College

Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...

 (1966–1970), was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship

Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after Cecil Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for study at the University of Oxford. It was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships, and is widely considered the "world's most prestigious scholarship" by many public sources such as...

 and studied at Oxford University (1970–1971), and obtained a law degree from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

 in 1975. He joined the law firm Heller Ehrman

Heller Ehrman

Heller Ehrman LLP was an international law firm of more than 730 attorneys in 15 offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Heller Ehrman was founded in San Francisco in 1890 and had additional offices located in most of the major financial centers around the world including New York City, Los...

 LLP in 1983, and founded the firm’s Energy Practice Group.

Redman left the practice of law after specializing in public policy and energy law for more than 30 years. He is currently President of Summit Power Group Inc

Summit Power

Summit Power Group is a Seattle-based power company, responsible for developing electric power plants , which are primarily natural gas-fired and wind-powered, with solar power recently added. Summit does not develop conventional coal-fired power plants without carbon capture...

, a Seattle-based developer of wind, solar, gas-fired, and carbon-capture power plants. Summit is currently developing the Texas Clean Energy Project

Texas Clean Energy Project

The Texas Clean Energy Project is a project developed by Summit Power Group, Inc , involving the building of the world’s first IGCC clean-coal power plant, a type of carbon capture and storage facility, located near Odessa, Texas.- Background :According to Summit, the future Texas Clean Energy...

in Odessa, Texas.