David Is Running At-Large To Be Your Next Monroe County Councilperson

Monroe County residents all deserve a shot at the shared prosperity of our whole community, whether you work with your hands, or on your feet, in an office or classroom.

David believes we fund our values in county government through a County Council that makes good investments for everyone.

David believes a local high school graduate should be able to not only survive in Bloomington and Monroe County, but thrive. To do that, we need a bright economic future and a diverse economy for a diverse workforce.

David is committed to supporting a county government that makes invests in improving infrastructure, supports social services, and meets our obligations. David will work to create opportunities that welcome a returning college graduate, a new immigrant to our community, or folks who grew up here and never left.

Meet David.

A Government Innovator With Results

David is a Dad, Management Consultant, and Civic Leader.

A Hoosier by choice, David moved to Indiana over 20 years ago to study at IU and found his forever home in Bloomington. He has worked for government, non-profit organizations, and management consulting for two decades, and will bring that experience to County Council.

David at the Y, 2004

Public Health HAZMAT Training with the Louisville Fire Department, 2006

David’s Bloomington Story

Like many people in our community, David moved to Bloomington to study at Indiana University.

David’s Monroe County story began in 2002. At the encouragement of two of his college mentors who earned their Ph.Ds in public policy at Indiana University, David moved here to earn his Master’s in Public Affairs degree from the then School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Before enrollment, he worked for a year as a substitute teacher, and later staff at Bloomington North High School. While at IU, David worked full time in the community at the Monroe County Y. It is there that he met many folks in town. He found friends and learned Euchre, and in the process joined a community. He met his future wife while working at the Y too.

David earned his Master of Public Affairs degree in local government administration in 2005.

A Start in County Government

David’s first job out of IU was managing a public health preparedness grant program from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Monroe County Health Department. As the county’s public health preparedness coordinator, he was one of 3 full time emergency management-trained personnel supporting our community. He worked with his mentor, the late Bob Schmidt, and County Council liaison, the late Sophia Travis, on raising awareness for pandemic planning and recruiting volunteer nurses and doctors for response.

If elected, David would be the only member of County Council who worked as staff for Monroe County Government. He would bring front-line insight into the issues facing workers in county government.

On the National Academies of Science, Institute of Medicine, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events, 2008-10

A reunion: Former NGA Public Safety Chairman and Maryland Governor Marty O’Malley visits David’s class in 2022.

Onsite Incident Management and IT consulting at Super Bowl 50, San Jose, CA, 2016

A Record of Servant Leadership

David has supported public safety, homeland security, and emergency management at a national level for nearly two decades.

David will bring that knowledge to County Council.

David took his Monroe County experience to Washington. As the senior homeland security analyst for the bi-partisan National Governors Association (NGA), he advised state governments on disaster management, terrorism, first responder safety, and public safety radio communications. He represented the nation's governors on committees of the Transportation Research Board and the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies of Science. His team co-authored the desk reference used by governors on homeland security, used by over 70 administrations, during times of crisis.

David knows the best practices nationwide for emergency management and preparedness and will advocate to fully fund our county preparedness for disasters.

David was also a senior management fellow for the District of Columbia Government under then-Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, working on wage increases and human resource performance management.

David will bring an understanding of human resource management from our Nation’s capital to Monroe County government- a key responsibility of county council

Paying it Forward: Teaching the Next Public Servants

David is on the teaching faculty at the IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, where he developed their homeland security studies minor. This was the first program in the nation that centers an ethics course as a required part of their security studies, for which he received a teaching award in 2021. 

Paying It Forward For Others

Service above self is more than a motto. For David, it is a north star for public service.

Committed to combating climate change and sustainability, David served briefly on the state Board of Directors for Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter.

He is a member of the Bloomington Sunrise Rotary and a Paul Harris Fellow.

David was appointed by the County Commissioners to serve a term on the Affordable Housing Advisory Commission. He was also president of the Monroe County Board of Elections.

David was unanimously elected chair of the Monroe County Democratic Party in 2022; a role he continues to serve in today. He was a state delegate to the 2020, 2022 and upcoming Indiana Democratic Party State Conventions.

David lives in Van Buren Township with his spouse and three kids.

Supporting Pantry 279 through Rotary, 2022

David’s Experience

  • Member, Bloomington Sunrise Rotary (2024-2025), Paul Harris Fellow, Past Service Chair (2022-2023)

  • Civic Member, Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce (2023-present)

  • President and Board Member, Monroe County Elections Board (2022-2023)

  • Board Member, Monroe County Affordable Housing Advisory Commission (2021-2022)

  • Board Member, Fairfax County Medical Reserve Corps (2008-2011)

  • Board Member, Monroe County Local Emergency Planning Council (2006-2007)

  • Board Member, Monroe County Citizens’ Corps (2006-2007)

  • Director, Monroe County Medical Reserve Corps (2006-2007)

  • Chair, Monroe County Democratic Party (2021-present), Vice Chair (2021), Precinct Committeeperson (2019-present)

  • Member, Indiana 9th District Democrats Committee (2021- present)

  • Delegate, Indiana Democratic Party State Convention (2020, 2022, 2024)

  • Steering Committee, Indivisible Bloomington and 9th District, (2017-2019)

Professional Experience

20 years experience in government and non-profit management and policy consulting including:

  • Public Health Emergency Coordinator, Monroe County Health Department

  • Capital City Senior Management Fellow, Government of the District of Columbia

  • Senior Policy Analyst, National Governors Association

  • Teaching Faculty, IU O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs

  • Career Management Consultant, supporting US Department of Homeland Security, US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Department of Energy, US Department of Defense, US Department of Veterans’ Affairs, and US Department of Justice on projects as an employee of a private sector consulting firm and non-profit organizations.