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Dr. Huck began his professional life as a lawyer, businessman,
and entrepreneur after graduating from Bucknell University
and the Northeastern University School of Law. He
started his legal career in the West Virginia Attorney General’s
Office, soon moving up to the position of Deputy Attorney
General and Director of the Antitrust and Complex Litigation
Division. After being appointed by Governor Gaston
Caperton as Legal Counsel to the Governor of West Virginia,
Dr. Huck served on the Governor’s executive staff for
four years before moving into the private sector. He
was the co-founder and managing partner of the Huck & Gillooly
law firm in Charleston, West Virginia, and the founder and
President of the American Mediation Group. Subsequently,
Dr. Huck left the private practice of law a first time for
a two-year stint as District Manager of the American General
Corporation’s pension subsidiary operations for West
Virginia. After that hiatus, Dr. Huck returned to the
practice of law as a member of the Allen, Guthrie, & McHugh
law firm in Charleston, and then as a criminal courts judge
in Montgomery, West Virginia. Dr. Huck left the practice
of law for the second and final time to pursue his doctorate
in Leadership at West Virginia University. In addition
to his other efforts during this period, Dr. Huck also served
for nine years as the Chairman of the West Virginia Regional
Jail and Correctional Facility Authority. After successfully
completing his doctoral studies in 2001, Dr. Huck was hired
as a faculty member at the McDonough Center for Leadership
at Marietta College in Ohio. During his time at Marietta,
Dr. Huck received that institution’s Outstanding Faculty
Member award and was granted promotion and tenure by the
college’s board of trustees. Dr. Huck began his
appointment as the W.R. Gruver Chair of Leadership Studies,
and Co-Director of the Entrepreneurship for the Public Good
Program, at Berea College in August 2007.
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