David Pepper

David Pepper was elected a Hamilton County Comissioner in the November 2006 Elections. He was endorsed in this race by The Enquirer.

2009 Run For State Auditor
Pepper has announced that he will run for Ohio State Auditor in 2010.

2007 - present: Hamilton County Commissioner
David was elected to the Hamilton County Commission in November 2006. He now serves as the President of the three-member Commission.

2001 - 2005 : City Council
Pepper was elected to City Council shortly after the 2001 riots. In his first race for political office in 2001, David finished first out of 26 Council candidates, the first time that had been achieved by a non-incumbent in 40 years. He finished in first place over 26 more candidates, by an even wider margin, in November 2003. On the City Council, David served as the Chairman of Council's Law and Public Safety Committee.

Squire, Saunders & Dempsey
Since 2000, David has also served as an associate in the Cincinnati office of the law firm of Squire Sanders & Dempsey, where he concentrates his practice on appellate litigation. From 1999-2000, he clerked for Judge Nathaniel Jones on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.

CSIS
From 1993 to 1996, David worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., as an aide to former National Security Adviser Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and later in St. Petersburg, Russia, working with Russian and American business leaders to stimulate investment and economic growth in the City. In those years, he worked with a wide variety of well-known international leaders, including Henry Kissinger, Paul Bremer, Vladimir Putin, CEOs of some of the West's largest companies, diplomats, and numerous members of Congress.

Education
David graduated from Cincinnati Country Day in 1989 and earned his B. A. magna cum laude from Yale University in 1993, where he was Phi Beta Kappa and served as Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News. David earned his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999, where he won several school-wide awards for his written work and was a published author three times.

Family
David Pepper is the son of former P & G CEO John Pepper. David is a fifth-generation Cincinnatian, coming from a family with a long tradition of public service to the community and with roots throughout the region.

Blog
David Pepper blogs at: http://cincypeptalk.blogspot.com/