Hon. Peter K. Killough is an associate judge for the Prince George’s County Circuit Court in the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Maryland. He was appointed to the bench by Governor Larry Hogan in 2018.
Prior to his appointment, Killough spent nine years working as an assistant attorney general with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General (2009 to 2018). During his tenure there, he served as the director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (2016 to 2017) and was principal counsel for the People’s Insurance Counsel Division before that (2009 to 2016). He also spent time as the equal opportunity officer for the Office.
Over the course of his legal career, Killough was a former senior attorney in the Office of General Counsel of the Ford Motor Company (2006 to 2008) and had practiced for seventeen years at Carter, Ledyard & Milburn (1989 to 2006).
He received a B.A. in history from New York University in 1983. Killough then served for three years as a captain in the United States Army (1983 to 1986), having received the Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Army Achievement Medal. He continued his service in the United States Army Reserves (1986 to 1989). Killough went on to complete a J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1989.
He was admitted to practice in New York (1990), the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1997), the District of Columbia (1997), Maryland (2002), and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (2003).
His memberships have included the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Maryland Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, the Prince George’s County Bar Association, and the J. Franklyn Bourne Bar Association.
Killough has also served on the Task Force on Military Service Members, Veterans, and the Courts.
From a civic standpoint, he sat on the Board of Directors of Charm City Youth Lacrosse League and was a volunteer for the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project and the Thurgood Marshall Legal Education Opportunity Program.
Killough was born in Detroit, Michigan.