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FRANCIS PUGH
Since his retirement in June 1997 from the Maryland Attorney General's Office, Francis Pugh has been affiliated with the Baltimore Mediation Center in the full time practice of mediation. His mediation practice includes family, civil, employment, business, real estate, and discrimination matters. In addition to private cases, Mr. Pugh performs mediations for the United States Postal Service, the Circuit Courts for Baltimore City, Baltimore County and Worcester County, the District Court of Maryland, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, the Maryland Human Relations Commission, and various state agencies. He is also an approved mediator with the FDIC and the EEOC. Mr. Pugh graduated from Loyola College with an AB degree in English in 1954, served in the U.S. Army, and attended law school at the University of Baltimore where he graduated magna cum laude and first in his class. Until 1969 he was engaged in the general practice of law with the firm of O'Conor & Sweeney handling corporate, business, family, labor and various civil and criminal cases. Mr. Pugh was then appointed as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland. After serving in the criminal, civil and special litigation divisions, he was appointed as principal counsel to the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. That Department included approximately 20 Boards and Commissions including the Commissioner of Financial Regulation, the Insurance Commissioner, the Division of Labor & Industry, and Boards regulating Real Estate, Home Improvement, Certified Public Accountants, Professional Engineers, Surveyors, Appraisers and most of the other non-health related professions and occupations. Mr. Pugh appeared frequently before the Maryland legislature and was twice honored by the Governor for his legislative accomplishments. Since his retirement from the Attorney General's Office, he has served as a legislative lobbyist on real estate matters. In addition to his law and mediation practices, Mr. Pugh has also been active in the field of education as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Montessori School and am current member of the Board of Trustees for Villa Julie College, the 3rd largest private college in Maryland. Mr. Pugh also taught for several years at the Mt. Vernon School of Law, has appeared as a guest lecturer at the University of Maryland School of Law, and since has also taught an upper level course in Mediation and Conflict Resolution at Villa Julie. Mr. Pugh was the founding director of the paralegal program at Villa Julie, the first of its kind in the state of Maryland, and in the first group of programs to be approved by the American Bar Association in 1975. In 1989 he was awarded the President's medal at Villa Julie, and was presented with the Founder's Award in 2003. Mr. Pugh is a member of the Speaker's Bureau for the Maryland Mediation and Conflict Resolution Office (MACRO) and a member of its Business ADR Initiative Research Committee and its Business Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee. He is also a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution and the Maryland Council on Dispute Resolution. He has been married since 1956 to the former Ann Hipsley and is proud to have five children and five grandchildren. |
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