Michael Siegel

Michael Eric Siegel is an award-winning adjunct professor of Government at The Johns Hopkins University. He is also the author of The President as Leader (Routledge, 2018). He has written at least twenty articles in professional journals and published four op-eds in the Baltimore Sun. From 1992-2021, Siegel served as a Senior Education Specialist at The Federal Judicial Center, where he designed and delivered leadership education programs to chief judges of the U.S. courts and to federal court unit executives.

Siegel received his PhD in political science from Tufts University and served as an Eli Lilly Endowment postdoctoral teaching fellow at Purdue University. He completed Negotiations Skills training at the Harvard Law School in 1992 and 2016. Dr. Siegel has served as a consultant on judicial reform and rule of law issues in The Czech Republic, Serbia, Argentina, Algeria, and the Republic of Georgia. From June 2001 through July 2003, he served as chairman of the Juvenile Justice Commission in Montgomery County, Maryland. In December 2018, Dr. Siegel received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Maquis Who’s Who.