Dr. Daniel Huck

Dr. Huck began his professional life as a lawyer after graduating from Bucknell University and the Northeastern University School of Law. He started his law 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 as Legal Counsel to the Governor of West Virginia, Dr. Huck served on Governor Gaston Caperton’s executive staff for four years before moving into the private sector. He was a member of the Allen, Guthrie, & McHugh law firm in Charleston, West Virginia, and then served as a criminal courts judge. Dr. Huck left the full-time practice of law to pursue his doctorate in organizational and leadership theory at West Virginia University. In addition to his other efforts, Dr. Huck also served for a decade as the Chair of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority from 1996-2005, supervising the operation and construction of various jails and prisons throughout the state. After his doctoral studies, Dr. Huck was hired as a faculty member at Marietta College in Ohio, where he received that institution’s Outstanding Faculty Member award and was granted promotion and tenure by the college’s board of trustees. Dr. Huck began at Berea College in 2007 where he currently teaches and holds tenure, and he holds the Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities. More recently, Dr. Huck earned an LL.M. in Public International Law (Advanced), International Criminal Law Specialization, from Universiteit Leiden in The Netherlands. In 2013, he served as a Visiting Professional in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. Dr. Huck was the coach of the world champion Leiden University Law School ICC Moot Court Team in 2013 (international criminal law), and he now coaches Berea’s Moot Court teams in American Law competitions. In 2023, his colleagues at Berea College chose him as the recipient of both the Seabury Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Hager Excellence in Advising Award.