Fulton Jeffers
Fulton P. Jeffers
fpj@CarneyKelehan.com
T:(410) 860-1888
212 West Main Street
Suite 212
Salisbury, Maryland 21801
Fulton Jeffers is of counsel to Carney, Kelehan, Bresler, Bennett and Scherr and a member of the firm’s education and business and commercial law practices.
Mr. Jeffers has thirty-eight years of experience representing boards of education, beginning with the Wicomico County Board of Education, which he continues to represent. Mr. Jeffers also represents the Somerset County Board of Education and has represented the Worcester County Superintendent of Schools and the Talbot County Board of Education Ethics Panel.
Mr. Jeffers has presented legal programs on school law for the Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, and has served as President of the Maryland Local School Board Attorneys Association.
Mr. Jeffers is a long-time resident of Salisbury, Maryland, where he was born and returned to live after law school in 1968. Mr. Jeffers taught mathematics in the Wicomico County Public School System for two years. He was elected State’s Attorney for Wicomico County in 1970 and served one term, choosing not to run for re-election. He once owned his own law firm, Fulton P. Jeffers, PA, and now practices with CarneyKelehan as well as Long & Badger, PA, as of counsel.Practices
School Law
Business and Commercial Law
Bar Admissions
Maryland, 1968
US District Court, District of Maryland, 1974
US Supreme Court, 1980
Education
Duke University School of Law, JD, 1968
University of Maryland, Magna Cum Laude, BS, 1965
Professional Associations
Maryland Bar Association, Board of Governors
Wicomico County Bar Association
National School Board Association Council of School Attorneys
Maryland Council of Local School Board Attorneys
Civic Involvement
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors and former acting Executive Director of the Ward Foundation, operators of the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art
Former member of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore Board of Advisors
Former member of O.U.R. Community Board of Directors
Current member of the Greater Salisbury Committees and served two years as its Chairman
Former legal counsel to the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore
Former legal counsel and member of the Richard A. Henson Foundation
Member and legal counsel to the Frederick W. Richmond Foundation
Member and former President of the Maryland School Board Attorneys Association
Former Secretary, former Chairman of the Board and former member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Maryland
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Maryland State Bank
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mid-Delmarva Family YMCA
Former Chairman of the Salisbury/Wicomico Economic Development Corporation
Ten years on the Board of Trustees of Peninsula Regional Medical Center, three years as Chairman of the Board
1997 recipient of the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce Award for outstanding community service and contribution to the advancement of the Salisbury-Wicomico Area.