He served as President of the Federal Administrative Law Judges’ Conference in 1981 and retired from Federal service in January 1995, as Chief Judge at the U.S. He served in that capacity in Los Angeles and Fresno, California and in New York and Washington, DC. In early 1972, Ben was appointed to the Federal Administrative Judiciary. Department of Labor where he pioneered in the enforcement of laws that enriched the lives and welfare of working women and others considered “minorities” among the workforce he prosecuted such laws as the equal-pay-for-equal-work laws, minimum wage laws, anti-discrimination legislation, safety & health regulations and the like. He then joined the staff of the Solicitor of Labor, U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict, Ben briefly practiced law in Baltimore and in Catonsville, Maryland. He was subsequently admitted to the DC bar, the bar of the state of Florida and, in 1966, was admitted to practice before the U.S.
He earned his undergraduate degree and Juris Doctor degree at the University of Baltimore and was admitted to the practice of law in Maryland in 1953. He was schooled by the sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill at All Saints’ School in Baltimore and by the Jesuits at Loyola Blakefield in Towson, Maryland. Benjamin George Usher (“Ben”), age 93, of Columbia, Maryland and Delray Beach, Florida, died peacefully on November 3, at Brooke Grove, Sandy Spring, MD.īen was born January 18, 1929, the youngest of three children of James Michael and Viola Seipp Usher in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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