Dr. Allen H. Loughry II, holds four separate law degrees including an S.J.D (Doctor of Juridical Science), from The American University, Washington College of Law; an LL.M. (Master of Laws in Criminology and Criminal Justice) from the University of London; an LL.M. (Master of Laws in Law and Government) from The American University, Washington College of Law; and a JD from Capital University School of Law, in addition to studying law at the University of Oxford.
Dr. Loughry has served as a Senior Assistant Attorney General in the West Virginia Attorney General's Office and has argued more than twenty cases before the West Virginia Supreme Court as well as argued or filed legal pleadings in the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit, the United States District courts for the Southern and Northern Districts of West Virginia and Southern District of Florida, as well as various other legal forums. He also served as a Special Assistant to a United States Congressman and as a Direct Aide to a West Virginia Governor. He has worked for the Ohio Supreme Court; served as a personal assistant to a county prosecutor; was appointed as a special prosecuting attorney; wrote for two newspapers and the Associated Press; and assisted with or ran various political campaigns at the local, state, and national levels. Dr. Loughry's passion for politics is only superseded by his passion for life and family, for he has not only extensively traveled his home state of West Virginia, but also enjoys traveling abroad. He currently resides with his wife in Charleston where he is a law clerk to the West Virginia Supreme Court. 
