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Dave Sunday is a career prosecutor sworn in as Pennsylvania’s attorney general in January 2025 A lifelong resident of the state, he earned his undergraduate degree in finance at Penn State University and a JD degree at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

After high school, Sunday joined the United States Navy. The decision became a defining moment, setting the course for his future and shaping his character, experiences, and opportunities in a profound way. As an enlisted recruit he was deployed to the Persian Gulf, where he participated in Operation Desert Strike. Sunday was also deployed to South America and conducted numerous counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean. While serving, he learned what it takes to be an effective leader under tremendous pressure, and he proudly carries on the Navy’s core principles of honor, commitment, and courage to this day.

After graduating law school, Sunday worked as law clerk for the Honorable Joseph C. Adams of the York County Court of Common Pleas. In 2009, he became a prosecutor with the York County District Attorney’s Office, where he supervised major crime cases and the felony narcotics unit and served as legal advisor to the District Attorney’s Drug Task Force and York County Quick Response (SWAT) Team.

In 2017, Sunday was elected York County District Attorney, a role he held until winning the attorney general race. As district attorney, he led York County’s fight against the opioid epidemic, fought to protect seniors through his service on the Elder Abuse Task Force, helped to forge partnerships with healthcare systems and the courts to deal with the increasing challenges surrounding mental health, and personally tried approximately 50 felony jury trials to verdict, including the successful prosecution of more than 10 of the most high profile York County murder trials in recent history.

Sunday has served as president of the York County Bar Association, chair of the York Opioid Collaborative, and chair of the Education and Training Committee of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association. He was appointed to the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing by House Speaker Mike Turzai in 2020, and was selected to serve on the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime and Delinquency’s statewide Mental Health and Justice Advisory Committee. Sunday and his wife have one son and reside in Spring Garden Township.