Experienced Progressive Innovative
Dave Sullivan has served as the Northwestern District Attorney since 2011. Under his leadership, the office has embraced a community prosecution model. This approach blends smart and fair prosecutions, crime prevention, law enforcement partnerships, and community collaboration to build safer communities throughout Hampshire and Franklin counties and the town of Athol. Under DA Sullivan’s innovative leadership, the office has improved the criminal justice system, reduced crime and victimization, and held offenders accountable.
Dave has been an attorney for more than 35 years serving as a trial attorney, advocate, and public administrator. He has handled criminal and civil cases in Superior, District, Juvenile, Probate and Military Courts. He started his law career in 1987 as a civilian trial attorney representing U.S. Army and Air Force service members in General and Special Courts-Martial in West Germany. He was Easthampton City Attorney and served as Register of Probate for Hampshire Probate and Family Court. In 2008, he was one of two Massachusetts lawyers chosen to receive the Massachusetts Bar Foundation's President's Award for "extraordinary volunteerism, leadership, and commitment to increasing access to justice in Massachusetts."
Among his many civic activities, he has been a volunteer at the Easthampton Inter-Faith Cot Shelter, youth soccer and basketball coach, and assisted with the statewide MBA high school mock trial competition for over 20 years.
Dave graduated from Northeastern University Law School and Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. He lives in Easthampton and is married with three grown children.
