David Pugh

Chair of the Board of Directors

Bradley

David Pugh, partner at Bradley, Birmingham, Alabama, is the 2025 chair of Associated Builders and Contractors' National Board of Directors. He has been an active member of the ABC Alabama chapter since 1997 and served as chair in 2017.

Pugh represents owners, general contractors, subcontractors, engineers, architects, insurers and sureties throughout the United States, advising his clients at every stage of construction projects. He has drafted and negotiated hundreds of contracts and participated in trials, hearings, appellate arguments, mediations and arbitrations on both private and government construction projects. Pugh has also argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, representing a pipe subcontractor involved in the construction of a natural gas pipeline in Florida and Alabama. Prior to beginning his construction law practice at Bradley, he worked for Harbert Construction, a large general contractor in Birmingham.

Pugh is the chair of the City of Irondale Commercial Development Authority. In addition, he serves on the board of First Priority of Alabama, a ministry to public schools in the state, and Restoration Academy, an urban private Christian school in Birmingham.

Pugh earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Alabama and a juris doctor from Vanderbilt University.