Labor on the Move: UMD Law Student Wins Browning Fund Award

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Joshua Lowery, a second-year student at University of Maryland School of Law and the son of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) Local 10’s Jim Lowery and IAM member Ruth Lowery, has been awarded a 10-week summer fellowship by the Peggy Browning Fund. Lowery will spend the fellowship working at O’Donoghue & O’Donoghue in Washington, DC. “Peggy Browning Fellows are distinguished students who have not only excelled in law school but who have also demonstrated their commitment to workers’ rights through their previous educational, work, volunteer and personal experiences,” said the Fund in announcing the award, one of just 70 nationwide, selected from more than 500 applicants from 125 participating law schools. “Ruth and I are very proud,” Jim Lowery told Union City. A graduate of Towson University, Joshua Lowery interned with Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer and spent a summer break working alongside members of the IUEC Local 10 assisting in the construction of the elevators at National Harbor. The Peggy Browning Fund was established in memory of Margaret A. Browning, a prominent union-side attorney who was a Member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 1994 to 1997. - photo: Jim, Ashleigh, Joshua and Ruth Lowery at Joshua and Ashleigh’s June 2011 wedding