Email: tcushing@ggu.edu

Tom Cushing teaches Employment Law, Negotiating in Business and other law-related EMBA, DBA and MBA courses at GGU. He was a GGU Adjunct of the Year in 2007 for a topical seminar on business, law and society in the DBA program. He holds JD and MBA degrees from the University of Illinois, and a BGS from the University of Michigan, with Distinction. Go Blue.

Tom held law and management positions for the DuPont Company and Conoco Inc, before leaving in 1993 to form a Bay Area legal search and staffing firm that did business as the Cushing Group, Recruiters. He took a sabbatical during 2010 to work as Associate Director, Nevada Humane Society. Tom has lectured nationally on Legal Negotiation and Settlement for INR-Lexcomm, a provider of continuing legal education courses. He has been admitted to law practice in Illinois, Texas and California.

On a personal level, Tom with his fiancée Susan has daughters, Rachael (a K-12 school Principal in VT) and Sierra (a Director of Paramedic Studies at U. New Mexico). He is an occasional contributor of animal advocacy writings to The BARK magazine, a fosterer of border collies and other canines, and has two dogs of his own. His humane movement work (and not fashion sense) led to a nomination for GQ magazine’s 2009 Better Men, Better World Award.

In 2011, along with fellow GGU adjunct prof Allan Mann, Tom led a citizen coalition that developed the business plan for the City of Alameda to transfer its animal shelter to a non-profit – thereby saving the City some $600K/year, and the lives some 700 companion animals/year vs. the City’s best alternative. Tom is also a blogger (The Raucous Caucus) and Moderator emeritus on the popular news and (okay, low brow) humor website fark.com.