Doug is a member and past President of the Wood County Bar Association and served on the Board of the Wood County Law Library. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, having served on its Council of Delegates, and is a Fellow in the Ohio State Bar Foundation.

Doug serves as Village Solicitor for the Village of Gibsonburg, and has represented a number of community-based, non-profit organizations, including the Children's Resource Center, the Pemberville-Freedom Historical Society, the Pemberville-Freedom Fire Dept. Auxiliary, and the Pemberville Free Fair.

Doug has served on the Board of the Eastwood Education Foundation, the Otterbein Portage Valley Retirement Community, and the Henry-Wood Sportsman's Alliance. He has served as a music and worship leader, and deacon, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Pemberville, and as a member of the Wood County Republican Party Central Committee for Freedom Township.

Doug and his wife Lisa reside in rural Pemberville with their three children Tyler, Holden, and Carys, and are active in the music and youth ministries at several local churches, in the local 4H club "4-H-I-O" and in BSA Troop 344, where Doug earned his Eagle Scout award in 1987.