Armando Paz, DBA, J.D.

Professor Armando Paz earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Loyola Marymount University, his doctorate in business administration from United States International University, and completed his formal studies by earning a juris doctorate from LMU’s Loyola Law School.

Through LMU, Armando taught American business practices to political leaders, academics, executives, and professionals from the USSR, various post-Soviet Union republics, and the People’s Republic of China. His decades of adjunct teaching at LMU have been in accounting, finance, and business law. His teaching responsibilities include introductory business law, White Collar Crime, and a graduate-level law and ethics course.

Highlights of his career as an attorney include 10 years as a Los Angeles Superior Court substitute judge, serving as chair and president (now emeritus) of the St. Thomas More Society of Los Angeles (a Roman Catholic bar association), and serving as a board member of the Italian American Lawyers’ Association where he is currently president-elect. Armando serves at LMU’s Sacred Heart Chapel as a Eucharistic Minister, lector, and lector coordinator. He is bilingual in Spanish.