David Parker | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 1954 (age 66–67) Iredell County |
Political party | Democratic |
Education | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA, JD) |
Website | Official website |
David P. Parker (born 1954) is an attorney based in Statesville, North Carolina, a former chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, and the Democratic nominee for Congress in the 2020 election of North Carolina's 10th congressional district.
Parker earned undergraduate and law degrees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the campaign manager for Sen. Terry Sanford's unsuccessful 1992 re-election campaign. From 1995 until his election as state party chair, Parker served as a member of the Democratic National Committee and was thus a superdelegate. [1] He is a former Iredell-Statesville school board member and former chairman of the board for Mitchell Community College.
David Parker is a businessman, lawyer, and developer from Iredell County. He has served as an elected member of the Iredell-Statesville School Board, Moderator of the Salem Presbytery in the Presbyterian Church (USA), and Chaired the North Carolina Democratic Party in 2012 when North Carolina hosted the DNC Convention in Charlotte.
David graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelors degree in Economics and a law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. He began his legal career as a prosecutor, trying over 3,000 charges in trials. As an attorney, he has tried commercial, family law, and Workers Compensation cases across North Carolina.
An Eagle Scout, David has been active in his community as Clerk of Session for his Church, Chair of the Mitchell Community College Board, and internationally as a member of US trade delegations to Taiwan (Republic of China), Germany, and to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
As a businessman, David has innovated Co-Working space in Charlotte and developed nearly 600 apartments on Lake Norman, employing hundreds of construction workers from counties in the 10th district.
David has been married for 38 years to Sally with three children and four granddaughters. David enjoys curating his musicality by composing both church and secular music on guitar and piano. [2]
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