William H. Baughman, Jr., credits Saint Vincent College with providing "tremendous opportunities" for personal and intellectual growth.

"For four years I traveled all over the country with the Saint Vincent debate team. I wrote for the student newspaper and was involved in student government," he said. "Had I been at a larger university, I probably would not have had an opportunity to participate in all of these activities."

The experience with the college debate team proved to be "the best preparation I could have for law school because I learned to think critically, to speak on my feet, and to analyze arguments very quickly."

He received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1974. Now a federal magistrate judge in Cleveland for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Judge Baughman is a life member of the U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference and an adjunct professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. He has served as chairman of the Cleveland Bar Association's Section of Litigation and Sixth Circuit Attorneys' Advisory Committee.

Judge Baughman was president of the Pastoral Council at Gesu Church in University Heights, Ohio. He also served on Gesu School’s athletic boosters club board and at various times was its head coach of boys’ varsity soccer and girls' varsity basketball. He is a member of the board of directors at Borromeo Seminary of the Diocese of Cleveland.

"I deeply appreciate the spirituality of education at Saint Vincent," he said. Saint Vincent has remained rooted in their Catholic Benedictine tradition when other Catholic-related colleges were de-emphasizing their Catholicism.

He considers many of his Saint Vincent professors “master teachers,” including Dr. George Bauroth, who taught his students to analyze political issues as a continuum.  That method of analysis has continually helped me, especially with issues of law,” he said.

Judge Baughman and his wife, Maryan, a 1971 graduate of Seton Hill College, have two adult children and live in Pepper Pike, Ohio.