MAGLDLucas
DAVID R. LUCAS
Deputy Grand Master, 2016
BIOGRAPHY
From Grand Lodge Press Release:
David Reed Lucas of Melrose was installed Deputy Grand Master of Masons for 2016. Lucas is a native of Melrose and a graduate of Melrose High School. He attended Syracuse University for his undergraduate studies in philosophy and psychology. He is also a graduate of Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Lucas is the Owner and Principal at Lucas Law Group, LLC., a firm he founded in 2013. He previously spent 1997-2013 as Attorney and Partner with Nigro, Pettepit & Lucas, LLP in Wakefield. He has served as our General Counsel since 2013 and as Special Litigation Counsel for the City of Melrose since 2008.
He is a familiar face in the Massachusetts and North Shore legal community. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, the City Solicitor/Town Counsel Association, the Middlesex County Bar Association, and the First District Eastern Middlesex Bar Association, of which he is a past president. In addition, he previously served as a member of the Hearing Committee of the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers and is a gubernatorial-appointee as Public Administrator for Middlesex County, where he oversees the estates of the deceased with no heirs.
Lucas is very generous with his time and talents in his community. He serves the First United Methodist Church in Melrose as a member of the leadership team and as a member of the children’s education team. He is a panel member of the Tri-City Community Action Program, Inc. (TRI-CAP) in Malden, and the coach of Malden Catholic High School’s Mock Trial Team.
He is also a corporator of the Wakefield-based The Savings Bank, a director of Melrose Congregational Retirement Homes, Inc., and a trustee of the Melrose High School Permanent Scholarship Fund.
Brother Lucas began his Masonic career in 1998 when he joined Fidelity Lodge in Melrose. He served as the Worshipful Master of Fidelity Lodge from September of 2003 to September of 2004. He first served the Grand Lodge as a member of the Board of Trial Commissioners in 2005 (of which he became Chairman in 2014) and as a member of the Insurance Committee since 2008. He was appointed Junior Grand Deacon in 2006 and Grand Steward in 2008. He has also served the Grand Master as his Grand Representative to the Grand Lodge of British Columbia & Yukon since 2008 and as Grand Counsel since 2013.
Active in several Masonic organizations, Lucas is a 32° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite – Valley of Boston. He currently serves as Assistant Master of Ceremonies and Director of the Degrees for Massachusetts Consistory. He is a member of Waverly Royal Arch Chapter, Melrose Council of Royal & Select Master Masons, and St. Bernard’s Commandery No. 12. He served as Eminent Commander of St. Bernard’s Commandery in 2012-2013. He is also a member of the Aleppo Shrine Temple in Wilmington and the Massachusetts College of the Masonic Societas Rosicruciana in Civitabus Foederatis.
