Hon. Francis J. Duggan                                          

Frank Duggan was recently elected President of the Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc, the organization of families of those who perished in the bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. He has represented this group without charge for 20 years and was instrumental in their receiving some $2.7 billion in compensation from the government of Libya. He also serves on the Board of the Cheney Cardiac Institute at George Washington Hospital in Washington DC, and is Chairman of the Head Injury Rehabilitation and Research Service in Rockville, Maryland. From 1999 to 2004, Mr. Duggan served as a Board member and Chairman of the National Mediation Board (NMB), appointed by President Clinton and confirmed twice by the Senate. The NMB is an independent agency that performs a central role in facilitating harmonious labor-management relations within two of the nation's key transportation modes – the railroads and airlines. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Duggan was an attorney with the Washington law firm of Mullenholz, Brimsek and Belair. For ten years he represented the Association of American Railroads on Capitol Hill, and, from 1989-90, served on the Presidents Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism. He has been Chairman of the Transportation Section of the Federal Bar Association and an officer of the Washington Foreign Law Society, as well as numerous Bar committees and law enforcement positions. He was a Reserve Deputy Sheriff for twelve years, is a certified Police Firearms Instructor and active in the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club. Mr. Duggan was a Presidential appointee at the Labor Department during the Ford and Reagan Administrations, serving as Assistant Secretary in the Reagan administration. He worked in the Senate on the Labor Committee and in the office of former Senator Charles Mathias (R-MD), and in the House for Rep. William Steiger (R-WI). He was also the Director of Operations of the Legal Services Program in the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Senior Legislative Manager of the US Department of the Treasury. After attending St. John's College and Law School in New York, Mr. Duggan received two graduate political science fellowships and a research grant from Harvard University. He has three grown children and lives with his wife, Faye Padgett, in Old Town, Alexandria, Virginia.