Hughie Duvall Hunt, II is the founding partner of Kemet & Hunt. Heading the firm’s civil litigation group,Mr. Hunt, a former GTE Academic All-American football standout at Georgia Southern University proved to be a formidable force both on and off the field. Selected by the then Georgia Governor Zell Miller in 1995, Hunt was the first African-American from his undergraduate institution to serve as the Governor’s Honors Intern for the District Attorney’s Office of Bulloch County. He graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1996, obtaining a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics and then graduating from the George Washington Law School in 1996 and beginning his law career in the state of Maryland.

Continuing to be a trailblazer, in 2006-2007, Mr. Hunt was selected as Chair of the Young Lawyers Section of the Maryland State Bar Association, becoming the first African American in the history of the Maryland State Bar Association to hold this position. He has also served on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors for the MSBA.