Biography

A lifelong Ohioan, Dave has dedicated his life to family and community. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1957, Dave’s father, a WWII veteran, was a salesman and mother a proud housewife. Dave had three siblings and grew up playing all sports. Dave graduated from West Geauga High School and went on to receive his BA in Accounting and Juris Doctorate from The University of Dayton. Upon graduation, he moved back to Cuyahoga County and worked as a public defender.
 
While running for County Prosecutor in 1988, Dave met a fellow West Geauga High School grad, Kelly, whom he married in 1990. Throughout his service as the Geauga County Prosecuting Attorney, Dave built a reputation as being a protector of both Geauga County families and Geauga County taxpayers. Dave made it a priority to provide the highest quality legal work in the most cost-efficient manner possible. The evening Dave took office in 1988, he told the crowd he would fight crime and work to develop the county in the way the people saw fit, not the developers or the courts. In 2005, the Ohio State Women’s Bar Association presented Dave with the "Family Friendly Workplace Award" for providing his employees a family-oriented office environment. In 2008, Forbes magazine named Geauga County the fourth best county in the nation to raise a family, citing the low crime rate and solid housing stock. Throughout his career, Dave has assisted in numerous counties throughout Ohio as a special prosecutor, and some of his case and trial work has been featured on national shows such as CBS's 48 Hours.
 
In November 2012, Dave was elected to the 113th Congress to represent the 14th district of Ohio. Dave is one of only two freshman Members serving on the influential House Committee on Appropriations, where he makes it a priority to reduce the scope and size of government and protect American tax dollars. In 2013, he voted to put Washington on a budget for the first time in five years. He introduced the SAVE Act, which would cut $200 billion in government waste and duplicative programs, and continues to lead bipartisan efforts to protect the Great Lakes. Keeping with a tradition he established while serving as Geauga County Prosecutor, Dave returned more than $100,000 from his Congressional budget to the U.S. Treasury in 2013.  

Dave resides in Russell Township, Ohio, with his wife Kelly and three children: Trenton, Keighle, and Bridey.