Preceded by Skip Ebert Name David Freed Children Three | Spouse(s) Amy Political party Republican | |
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Residence Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Alma mater Washington and Lee University
Dickinson School of Law | ||
David J. Freed is an American lawyer who currently serves as the District Attorney of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was the Republican nominee for Attorney General of Pennsylvania in the 2012 election. From 2013-14, Freed served as president of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. In September 2017, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to become the next United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Contents
- Early life and education
- Early career
- District Attorney
- Other activities
- 2012 election for PA Attorney General
- Personal life
- References
Early life and education
Freed grew up in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Camp Hill High School in 1988. He earned his B.A., cum laude, at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He earned a J.D. from Dickinson School of Law of Penn State University.
Early career
After graduating from law school, Freed worked in a private practice focusing on insurance defense litigation. In 1997, he became Deputy Prosecuter of York County. In 1998, he became an Assistant District Attorney of Cumberland County. In 2001, he was promoted to First Assistant D.A.
District Attorney
In 2006, he was appointed District Attorney after incumbent Skip Ebert Jr. was appointed to the position of Chief Deputy State Attorney General. Freed was elected in 2007 and re-elected in 2011 without any opposition. He was the youngest District Attorney of a fourth-class county in Pennsylvania.
Freed is frequently called upon to give testimony before the Pennsylvania Senate and Pennsylvania House of Representatives, including on closing loopholes in Megan's Law. In addition, he has testified before a joint meeting of the United States House of Representatives Judiciary and Education and Labor Committees regarding juvenile justice.
On the civil side, he primarily represented defendants on behalf of local and national insurance companies. On the criminal side, his office oversees a caseload of nearly 4,000 cases per year. He prosecuted a 14-year-old cold case homicide that was solved by DNA evidence and a similar 18-year-old unsolved homicide. Cumberland County continues to be the only District Attorney's office outside of a major city in the state to conduct in-house scientific testing of both blood and suspected illegal drugs.
Other activities
He was Secretary-Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, member of the Republican State Committee, former Chairman of the Cumberland County Governors Club, Honorary Board Member of the Boy Scouts of America, member of the Fight Crime Invest in Kids, former member of the Camp Hill Lions Club, former President of the Lion Foundation, and former President of the Nonprofit School and Community Foundation.
2012 election for PA Attorney General
Freed sought and won the Republican nomination for State Attorney General unopposed, after State Senator John Rafferty withdrew from the race. He faced Democratic nominee Kathleen Kane, a former Assistant D.A. of Lackawanna County, in the fall general election, and was defeated.
Personal life
Freed lives in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.