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David has spent over 35 years practicing municipal law. He served as the City Attorney for the City of Simi Valley from April, 1998 until December, 2008. Before that he was the City Attorney for the City of Lompoc for 17 years. He was a Deputy and then Assistant City Attorney for the City of Simi Valley from 1978 to 1981, and also worked in the City Attorney's Office in the City of Gardena.

As a partner with Carmel & Naccasha LLP, David focuses his practice on municipal law, land use law and related matters. In addition to serving as Assistant City Attorney for Arroyo Grande and Assistant District Counsel for the Cambria Community Services District and San Miguel Community Services District, David does special counsel work for other agencies, including the City of Camarillo and the City of Santa Maria.

David has been active in the statewide city attorney's organization the City Attorney's Department of the League of California Cities. He chaired the group's Mobile Home Rent Control Committee from 1989 until 1994, served on the Municipal Law Handbook Editorial Board (1993-1995), and was 2^nd Vice President, 1^st Vice President and President of the City Attorney's Department from 1995 to 1998. From 1996 until 2012, he chaired the Department's Municipal Law Institute Committee, which annually organized and co-sponsored symposiums on municipal law issues at law schools, including UC Hastings, UCLA and Stanford. He has taught municipal law at the Ventura College of Law and the Santa Barbara College of Law. Since 2009 he has been a member of the State Bar’s Public Law Section Executive Committee and currently serves as its Vice Chair.

Active in the communities he has lived in, he was on the Board of Directors of the Lompoc Valley United Way from 1984 to 1998, and on the Board of Managers of the Simi Valley YMCA from 1998 to 2008. He also volunteers with Arroyo Grande in Bloom and the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival.

David obtained his undergraduate degree from California State University, Dominguez Hills (1973), and a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California (1974). He received his Juris Doctorate degree from Syracuse University's College of Law in 1977.