Jeffrey Milton Directory Page

Professor Jeffrey Milton is a Clinical Professor at the R.H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He began teaching at the Smith School in 2010 as an Adjunct Professor and has demonstrated his versatility and breath of experience teaching a multitude of Tax, Ethics and Accounting courses in both the undergraduate and MS Graduate programs. Professor Milton is the recipient of four Distinguished Teaching Awards, a Smith School Most Valuable Professor Award, Unsung Hero Award, twice, Storyteller Award and the Krowe Teaching Award. 

Professor Milton is also Faculty Adviser to the reconstituted Real Estate Club at the Smith School and has coordinated the AIA Annual Graduation Dinner for the past six years. Professor Milton is a Member of the PTK Search Committee, the Curriculum Coordinator for Tax and Ethics courses and AIA Department Coordinator Outside Relations where he assists the Director of Development UMD in raising scholarship funds. He is also a member of the Smith School Undergraduate Oversight Committee and is a past Member of the MRC2 Committee. Mr. Milton is also an accomplished attorney having enjoyed a distinguished career in public service both at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and later in private practice as a Partner in what was then the second largest law firm in the United States. 

Mr. Milton took his expertise in real estate, tax and corporate law and turned to business where he served as President and CEO of three telecom companies specializing in fiber optic communications. Under his leadership these telecom companies were successfully sold. Turning to real estate he has been the CEO of BTS Development Corporation, a real estate development company with over 40 years of experience in the Southwest Florida market. 

Under Mr. Milton’s guidance BTS developed multiple golf course communities and golf clubs as well as numerous luxury condominium communities fronting the Gulf of Mexico on Sanibel Island, Florida and a private island yachting community with million dollars waterfront residences in Fort Myers, Florida. BTS has created hundreds of millions of dollars of property value. Mr. Milton is also experienced in condominium conversions and hotel restoration utilizing historic tax credits. He has also served on the Board of Directors of three banks and four golf clubs including the Sanctuary Golf Club on Sanibel Island where he was president for ten years. 

In addition to his career as a successful attorney, telecom executive, banker and real estate developer, Mr. Milton holds both Juris Doctorate and LLM law degrees.