Tom Still

Credentials: Retirement Date: 2021

Position title: Senior Lecturer Emeritus

Tom Still is an award-winning journalist who has been penning “Inside Wisconsin” since 1990. That span includes his tenure as chief political reporter, editorial page editor and associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, followed by his successful 23-year career as president of the Wisconsin Technology Council.

Still’s weekly columns focus on public policy, business, politics, and trends in technology – but also touch on aspects of Wisconsin life spawned by five decades of living in the Badger State.

Still was a senior lecturer for 16 years in the Department of Life Sciences Communications at UW-Madison. He continues to serve on advisory boards for the UW-Madison College of Engineering; the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters; the Wisconsin regional board for the Marshfield Clinic Health System; and an advisory group for First Business Bank. He is also an advisor to Competitive Wisconsin Inc.

Still has been cited for his writing by the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, the Associated Press, and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, among others.