Terry is from the community.
He is a lifelong resident of the Dayton area. Terry was proud to pull petitions to run for City Council and because you’re here, you know he is committed to win this position.
Terry is committed to improving the lives of our residents, economy of our City, and safety for citizens and businesses.
Terry and his wife Cheryl love Centerville.
Terry is professionally accomplished.
A Centerville council position is not a full-time role. Terry is a retired Dayton Police Sergeant, a 1983 graduate of the University of Dayton and a 1988 graduate of the Capital University Law School. He has been licensed to practice law since 1988 and is admitted to all courts in Ohio, the United States Supreme Court, and the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio.
While a Dayton Police Officer, he was awarded the Medal of Valor of the Dayton Ohio Police Department.
Terry worked previously in a private practice for a medium size law firm where he practiced litigation. He is now a solo practitioner with offices on South Main Street in Centerville. He represents injured clients against insurance companies; public employees in disability claims before the five State pension funds (with clients from all over Ohio) and is a part-time municipal prosecutor in a nearby community.
Terry believes in service to the community and his profession.
He gives back to his community in a variety of ways. In 2009-2010, he was the Grand Master of Masons in Ohio, a fraternity consisting at that time of over 106,000 members and 550 lodge. Since 1989, he has been an officer or trustee of the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite of Dayton. Its most visible charity is the 32nd Degree Learning Center which offers free classes in the Orton-Gillingham multisensory, structured method of reading, spelling and writing to help children with dyslexia. The Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite also is the owning body of the Dayton Masonic Center on Riverview Avenue in Dayton, alongside the Dayton Art Institute and visible to thousands of passerbys on I-75 each day.
From 2009 to 2025, he was a Trustee of the Ohio Masonic Homes, with retirement communities in Springfield, Medina and Toledo Ohio. During ten of the years, he was Chairman of the 15 member board and for four of those years was Vice-chairman. The Homes provide independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing care, rehabilitation and therapy, and memory care to over 700 residents. A Trustee's role included the oversight of nearly 700 employees and a $330,000,000 endowment.