David W. Sherman
David is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law, 1986. He was a contributor to the California Regulatory Reporter and the San Diego Law Review, Comments Editor for the Law Review, and Outstanding Public Interest Advocate for his work on behalf of consumers in California public utility rate hearings.
From 1986 to 1996, David worked as an attorney at the Honolulu law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, becoming a partner of the firm in 1993. His law practice involved various aspects of business law and commercial litigation, including intellectual property rights, antitrust, technology, public utility law, land use, civil forfeiture, commercial leasing, federal claims, environmental law, and administrative law.
In 1997, David relocated to Oregon, where he provides business and technology consulting services. David has worked with various nonprofit organizations, such as the Hawaii Bicycling League, the Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program of Polk County, United Way, Today’s Choices-Tomorrow’s Communities, and the Luckiamute Watershed Council. David ran as a Democratic candidate for State Representative in 1998, served as chair of the Polk County Democratic Central Committee and the Oregon 5th Circuit Congressional Committee, and authored the successful ballot measure for repeal of Monmouth's dry law in 2002. David also worked with technology start-ups in Hawaii, at both the Manoa Innovation Center and Maui Research and Technology Center.
David and his wife Kim started the Pedee Charter School (now part of Luckiamute Valley Charter School), a small rural school of fifty students, in September 2001, securing public and private grants of more than $1 million within the first six months of development. From 1998 to 2001, David worked as a Special Education Complaints Investigator for the Oregon Department of Education and as an adjunct lecturer in special education law for Western Oregon University in 2002.
David lives in rural Polk County, where he and his family run Cooper Hollow Farms and work on restoration of oak woodland and wildlife habitat.