Walter Stillwell

June 2022 - Bridge Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Walter Stillwell as Vice President & Associate General Counsel at PBS.

PBS is a private, nonprofit corporation, founded in 1969, whose members are America’s Public Television stations. PBS is made up of more than 350 local public noncommercial TV stations serving all 50 states, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. PBS stations reach more than 120 million people each month through on-air and online content.  PBS oversees program acquisition and provides program distribution and promotion; education services; new media ventures; fundraising support; engineering and technology development; and video marketing.

As Vice President & Associate General Counsel at PBS, Walter will provide counsel on content distribution, commercial transactions, licensing, and privacy.  Walter was most recently Assistant General Counsel, Distribution Relations at NPR. Earlier in his career, he served as an associate at Hogan Lovells.

Walter holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. He earned his Juris Doctor from Tulane University Law School.