Christopher “Spike” Eickholt

Spike attended the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and the University of Nebraska College of Law. While in law school Spike worked as a law clerk at ACLU Nebraska. Upon graduation Spike worked as an attorney at Legal Aid of Nebraska and then as Legal Counsel for the Nebraska Legislature's Judiciary Committee under then-chair Senator Kermit Brashear. In 2003 Spike accepted a position as a Deputy Lancaster County Public Defender and as a trial attorney represented indigent defendants in hundreds of criminal cases. Since 2015, Spike has been in private practice as an attorney and lobbyist.