Douglas Perry
Interim Chair of the Accounting, Business Administration, and Economics
Assistant Professor & Executive Director of the Leadership Institute, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Chairman of the Business Advisory Board
Doug Perry, JD, serves as the founding executive director of the Leadership Institute and now Assistant Professor and Chair of the department of Accounting, Business, and Economics at Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Perry received his juris doctor degree from Cornell Law School in 1988, where he served as editor of the Cornell Law Review. He began his legal and corporate career in Washington, D.C., as an associate for Jones, Day, Reavis, and Pogue, where Perry specialized in government contract law, international corporate transactions, and civil litigation.
In 1993, he joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobson where he was elevated to equity partnership in 1999. There, he specialized in reviewing and successfully negotiating and litigating multi-million-dollar claims, defending companies against civil claims, and representing business in international business transactions and trade matters.
He later became a partner in the national law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton where he specialized in commercial litigation and trade compliance before joining Honeywell in 2003, a multinational company with over 130,000 employees.
Perry retired from Honeywell in May 2019 and resides with his wife, Heather, and their five children in Crescent, Pennsylvania.
