Candidate for
County Commissioner; County of Hamilton; Democratic Party

Born and raised in Greater Cincinnati (in the City of Cincinnati as a child, and Northern Hamilton County as a teenager), David was elected to Cincinnati City Council in his first political race in November 2001. As a non-incumbent in that election, David finished first out of 26 candidates. He finished in first place once again in November 2003. In 2005, David won the seven-candidate primary for Mayor of Cincinnati, and was a narrow runner-up in the run-off to Mark Mallory.

On Council, David served as the Chairman of Council's Law and Public Safety Committee, working hand-in-hand with the City Police and Fire Departments and pushing forward new initiatives to help Council refocus on critical crime and safety issues, along with quality of life issues in neighborhoods. David also served as Chairman of the Rules Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Neighborhoods Committee. In his four years, David authored and supported numerous laws and initiatives on economic growth, neighborhood investment, housing, environment, youth, open government, police-community relations, and other key challenges facing the city. He won numerous awards for his work.

Since 2000, David has also served as an associate in the Cincinnati office of the law firm of Squire Sanders & Dempsey, where he concentrates his practice on appellate litigation. From 1999-2000, he clerked for Judge Nathaniel Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.

From 1993 to 1996, David worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., as an aide to former National Security Adviser Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and later in St. Petersburg, Russia, working with Russian and American business leaders to stimulate investment and economic growth in the City.

David graduated from Cincinnati Country Day in 1989 and earned his B. A. magna cum laude from Yale University in 1993, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and served as Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News. David earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999, where he won several school-wide awards for his written work and was a published author three times.

David is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian, coming from a family with a long tradition of public service to the community and with roots throughout the region.