{"80":{"first":"Michael","last":"Hussey"},"81":"Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Interim Dean of Students and Associate Professor","82":"mhussey@widener.edu","83":"717-541-3921","84":{"first":"David","last":"Sunday"},"85":"2007","86":"David Sunday has spent nearly his entire legal career in public service.  He has served his law school, community and country.\r\n\r\nUpon graduation from law school in 2007, he worked as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Joseph C. Adams in the York County Court of Common Pleas. He then joined the York County District Attorney\u2019s Office as a Deputy Prosecutor in July 2009 and was promoted to Senior Deputy Prosecutor in June 2010. As a prosecutor, he has tried more than a dozen murder case.\r\n\r\nIn 2017, David Sunday was elected (unopposed) as the District Attorney for York County.  During his time at the District Attorney\u2019s office, he has worked tirelessly to educate the community about the heroin and opioid crisis, working with Coroner Pam Gay to create the York County Heroin Task Force (now the York Opioid Collaborative).  \r\n\r\nWhen sworn in as the District Attorney, he said that \u201chis desire [was] to seek justice, regardless of what that looked like.\u201d  He also helped create the York County Elder Abuse Task Force with the York County Agency on Aging.  \r\nOutside of work, Dave serves on the Board of Directors for the York Opioid Collaborative, the Criminal Justice Advisory Board, York County Prison Board, and Better York Board.\r\n\r\nDave also focused on public service right out of high school, enlisting in the Navy.  He served four years, including a tour in the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Strike. He also participated in numerous counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and South America, \u201cchas[ing] drug runners in the Caribbean.\u201d\r\n\r\nDuring law school, Dave also focused on service, captaining the Jessup International Law Moot Court Team. He was also chosen for a legal clerkship at the United Nations Office of the Secretariat in New York, assigned to the Peacekeeping Division (one of only 20 law students chosen).\r\n","87":"David Sunday is the quintessential example of a Widener Law Commonwealth alum worthy of the award.  He has served his country under dangerous circumstances and his community as the top law enforcement officer in York County.  Enlisting the Navy, he deployed to the Middle East and later fought drug trafficking.  At the District Attorney\u2019s Office he has intrepidly fought violent crime and the heroin and opioid crisis.  In a time when our political system has become deeply divided over partisan issues, he was elected unopposed to be York County\u2019s District Attorney. \r\n\r\nDavid Sunday represents the best of the values and principles that Widener Law Commonwealth attempts to instill in its students.   "}