Tom Butler

Who is Tom Butler?

Tom Butler was a Democratic member of the Alabama Senate. He represented the 2nd District from 1995 until 2010. Senate District 2 is a fast-growing region of Alabama, encompassing most of Limestone County and western Madison County. It includes the cities of Athens, Huntsville and Madison. Prior to his term in the Alabama Senate, Butler served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 1982 through 1994.

Butler graduated from the University of Alabama and then from Auburn University. He works as a pharmacist and health underwriter. He is a member of Optimist International, the North Alabama Health Underwriters Association, and the Alabama Pharmaceutical Association.

Butler was an early enthusiastic supporter of making automated external heart defibrillators widely available in Alabama. He sponsored legislation to place such devices in all Alabama public schools. He served on the board of the Lord Wedgewood Charity in Birmingham, working to raise money to place AEDs in private schools in the state. He sponsored the Automated External Defibrillator Act, which allowed defibrillators in public and private buildings in the state and provided for training and placement of AEDs in volunteer fire departments and most municipal fire departments across the state. He proposed and helped pass an amendment to the Code of Alabama to protect persons from lawsuits who use a defibrillator in good faith to aid another person.