Slade Blackwell is a Republican

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 member of the Alabama Senate

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 for the 15th district, encompassing Jefferson County

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 and Shelby County

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Biography

Slade Blackwell was born in Mississippi

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, June 14, 1968, and grew up in Montevallo, Alabama

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. He received a Bachelor of Science in Commercial Design and Business from the University of Montevallo

University of Montevallo

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 on a basketball

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 scholarship

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. He then worked for Colonial Properties

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, and started his own small business

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, Ikana Development, in 1996.

He is a member of the Birmingham

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 Business Alliance, Mountain Brook

Mountain Brook, Alabama

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 and eGreater Shelby County Chambers of Commerce, the Alabama Republican Party

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, and a Board Member of Birmingham Golf Association.

He attended Enon Baptist

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 Church in Calera, Alabama

Calera, Alabama

Calera is a city in Chilton and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama. It is the location of Birmingham's Shelby County Airport. Its population was 3,158 at the 2000 census, but as of 2010 the population had nearly quadrupled to 11,620 making it the fastest growing city in...

 as a child. He now attends Covenant Presbyterian Church in Homewood, Alabama

Homewood, Alabama

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. He is married to his high school

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sweetheart, and they have three children.