Eddie Kislinger is a graduate of Beverly Hills High School, the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in History, and UCLA Law School. While in college he opened Leopold’s Records, Berkeley’s first alternative record store. He also met his future wife, Cathy Waterman. They married in 1978. In 2013 she designed the earrings and necklace Full Article…
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Music & Lyrics
After receiving his JD from UCLA, Kislinger landed a job at Motown Records, a family business famous for Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye, which had recently moved to Hollywood from Detroit. Two years later he joined Pryor Cashman Sherman, a NYC law firm which had opened an office in Beverly Hills led by Full Article…
Print Publications
Graceland Kislinger’s interest in the historical roots of pop music led him to visit Graceland and to write an article for the Los Angeles Times to celebrate what would have been Elvis Presley’s 70th birthday. Assisi 1943 Kislinger’s also an avid traveler and historian. Commonweal Magazine published his article “Assisi 1943” after his visit to Full Article…
Civic
Kislinger is a member of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Foundation (http://lapolicefoundation.org) and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Pitzer College (www.pitzer.edu/participant_online/pdf/2011_fall.pdf). He’s also is a supporter of the Civil War Trust (http://www.civilwar.org) and the Wounded Warrior Project (http://woundedwarriorproject.org).