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Eric W. Claville

Executive Advisor to the President, Governmental Relations at Norfolk State University

M.L.I.S., currently serves as the Executive Advisor to the President for Governmental Relations (I) at Norfolk State University. He has worked for two and half decades in education, politics, public policy, and law.

He has taught public policy, legal research, legal writing, constitutional law, and civil rights, law and the judicial process, ethics, and critical thinking. He has worked with many campaigns as an organizer, and strategist, and served as a campaign director. As a legislative assistant, he has researched and tracked legislative issues on the local and state levels. As a political and legal analyst and commentator, he provides on-air analysis on local radio and television stations. He has participated in the on-air analysis of 2012, 2016, and 2020 Presidential elections.

He is the creator of NABJ award-winning commentary, The Claville Report: Law, Policy and Politics, and the executive producer and host of State of the Water Radio Show, the Center for African American Public Policy and the NSU radio initiative. Both programs were created to educate individuals about the laws, public policy and politics that affect their daily lives.

He is a 2000 graduate of the Southern University Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, a 2006 cum laude honors graduate of Southern University Law Center where he received his Juris Doctorate, and a 2009 graduate of Louisiana State University with a Master's of Library and Information Science.