Education
Catherine Pugh attended Morgan State University in Baltimore, from which she earned Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Business Administration degrees.
Catherine Pugh attended Morgan State University in Baltimore, from which she earned Bachelor of Surgery and Master of Business Administration degrees.
She is currently serving in her 3rd term in the Maryland State Senate and is the Majority Leader, representing Maryland"s District 40 in Baltimore City. Pugh is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Civil Engineer Pugh & Company, a public relations firm. She founded Baltimore’s first African American business newspaper, the African American News and World Report.
Foreign the next several years, she served as the paper’s Managing Editor.
Pugh also served as an independent editor for the Baltimore Sun from the mid 80"s to early nineties. She also served as the dean and director for Strayer Business College (now Strayer University) in Baltimore.
Pugh returned to Philadelphia in 1994 to work in television at WTGW-television 48. She was the host of “Another View,” a weekly public affairs program that focused on policy issues within the African American community and featured interviews with community leaders and public officials.
Pugh also authored Mind Garden: Where Thoughts Grow and Healthy Holly, a children's book series advocating exercise and healthy eating.
Pugh was first elected to the Baltimore City Council, where she served from 1999 to 2004. Pugh was appointed to an open seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in 2005, where she served for one year before winning a seat in the State Senate in 2006. Pugh currently sits on the Finance Committee and serves as the Majority Leader of the Senate.
Pugh is a past Chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and the Women"s Caucus of Legislators in Maryland.
She leads the state on Cyber Security and Telemedicine expansion legislation. Pugh is also responsible for diversifying the state"s pension fund having led the passage of Senate Bill 606, which led to African Americans and other people of color management of the 40billion dollar fund going from 300 million dollars to 4.2 billion.
Catherine Pugh is currently President of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.