David Harold
Lecturer in Law
David T. Harold is the Chief Assistant Prosecutor of the Appellate & Training Division of the Wood County Prosecutor’s Office, where he has worked since January 2014 with his primary focus being appellate litigation. Prior to that, he worked at the Lucas County Prosecutor’s Office in its Juvenile and Appellate Divisions and clerked for Justice Judith Ann Lanzinger on both the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Ohio. He also taught at St. John’s Jesuit High School in Toledo, Ohio where he was the December 2009 Toledo Blade Teacher of the Month and received the Dr. Carl Demarkowski Faculty Endowment Award.
Harold was the recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Award presented by the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association. He is a member of the bar of the State of Ohio as well as the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. Harold is also a Master in the Morrison R. Waite Chapter of the American Inns of Court as well as a member of the Toledo Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association, where he is a member of the Council of Appellate Lawyers.
Harold graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Bowling Green State University in 1994, where he received the President’s Distinguished Service Award and continued to earn his Master’s in History in 1996. He attended the University of Toledo College of Law, where he was lead articles editor on the Law Review and received the Dean’s Award at his graduation in 2000.