An Innovative Forward-Thinking Prosecutor

David has deep roots in Middlesex County. He grew up in Cambridge, a die-hard Red Sox fan and he graduated from Princeton University summa cum laude in 1998, and from Harvard Law School cum laude in 2001. As soon as he graduated, he joined the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, where he served as a Juvenile Court prosecutor and domestic violence prosecutor; as the first Chief of the Cyber Protection Unit; as an organized crime prosecutor; and as the office’s General Counsel, a role in which he was responsible for providing policy and ethical advice to the District Attorney. He has prosecuted offenders in cases involving murder, child exploitation, narcotics trafficking, and public corruption, and has trained hundreds of police officers and young prosecutors in a wide variety of topics, including search warrants, digital evidence, and the law of weapons.

From 2015-2019 David served as the Chief Legal Counsel to the Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety. In that capacity he advised the Secretary on legal and legislative affairs, and chaired the Massachuses Witness Protection Board. He is a two-time co-chair of the Boston Bar Association’s (BBA) Criminal Law Steering Committee (2014-2016 and 2019-2020). He also served on the BBA’s Death Penalty Working Group, which strongly recommended against the restoration of the death penalty in Massachusetts. David currently sits on the BBA Council (its Board of Directors), and the BBA Executive Committee, working with other leaders in the Massachusetts legal profession to  guarantee access to justice. He is the father of two daughters, both graduates of Newton North High School, and now lives in Cambridge.