Loughry was born in 1970 and is a native of Tucker County, West Virginia.[3] He graduated from Tucker County High School in 1988 and went on to earn an undergraduate degree from the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University (1992).[4]
Loughry earned a law degree from Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, where he graduated with the honor of Order of the Curia (1998). He also holds an S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science) from The American University, Washington College of Law (2003), where he had the distinction of being one of the first three people (and the only one from North America) to be admitted to the SJD program; an LL.M. (Masters of Laws in Criminology and Criminal Justice) from the University of London (2005); and an LL.M.(Masters of Laws in Law and Government) from the American University, Washington College of Law (1999).
He studied law for a summer in England at St Anne’s College, Oxford and received the program’s top political science award (1997). The director of the Washington College of Law Program on Law and Government, Professor Jamin Raskin, said, “Allen was a model student and exacting scholar, and he will make a brilliant judge of the highest integrity.”[5]
In 1999, he completed the program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law through American University, Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and the University of Utrecht, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights. On October 4, 2013, American University, Washington College of Law awarded Loughry its Distinguished Alumnus Award. Raskin, also a Maryland State Senator, said, “Not only was Loughry a brilliant, popular, and diligent student at AUWCL, but his research done at AUWCL became a published and much-acclaimed analysis of the history of political corruption in West Virginia. Loughry’s run for the West Virginia Supreme Court was a tribute to his extraordinary creativity and intellect, and we are very proud of him and all his accomplishments.”[6]
In 2014, he was the recipient of Tuckineer Award, given to individuals for their civic commitment and service to Tucker County.[7]
See, all the right credentials. “Elite” even. Turns out though, nothing more than a common thief and a goddamned crook.
Check out that timeline, tho.
Essentially, all schooling and then run for WVA SC. His highest accomplishments (writing) were not made in a court room or practice.
He’s a book lawyer.