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Commissioner Jim Bennett


100 North Union Street
Montgomery, AL 36130-3500
334-242-3460
334-240-3417
http://www.alalabor.state.al.us/

As a fifteen-year legislative veteran and two-term Secretary of State, Jim Bennett joins the Riley Administration with a wealth of state government experience. Currently the chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Constitutional Reform, Bennett will retain that position in addition to overseeing the enforcement of labor legislation and promotion of peaceful settlement of labor disputes at the Department of Labor.

No stranger to labor policy, Bennett once served as public affairs director for the Alabama Labor Council, holding this post from 1971-1976. Additionally, he was a member of the House of Representatives from Homewood from 1978-1983, and of the Alabama Senate from 1983-1993. Bennett was appointed as Secretary of State in 1993 to fill a vacancy and won election by his own right in both 1994 and 1998. And, from 1999-2000, he served as president of the National Association of Secretaries of State.

In 1962, Bennett received his Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Jacksonville State University, where he presides as chairman of its Board of Trustees. He also obtained a Master of Arts degree in higher education administration from the University of Alabama in 1980.

During the 1960s, Bennett worked as an award-winning state capitol reporter for the Birmingham Post Herald.

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