David Casey is a member of the Qawalangin Tribe (Aleut) of Unalaska, Alaska. He is currently employed as a senior deputy for the Office of County Counsel, Juvenile Dependency Division, San Diego, California and is the a Trial Team Leader, working with four other trial deputies in departments 9 and S11. Mr. Casey is also a member of the California's Children's Justice Act Task Force, Rural Domestic Violence and Child Victimization Working Group administered through the Governor's Office of Emergency Preparedness, and a subcommittee member to the California Department of Social Services, ICWA Advisory Group.

He has been employed by the Office of County Counsel since 1996. In addition to his trial experience, he has worked with the appellate team responding to writs and appeals and is listed as the attorney of record in multiple published decisions. In addition to his trial and appellate work, Mr. Casey trains judges, attorneys, social workers, probation officers and tribal representatives on The Indian Child Welfare Act at state and county conferences throughout California. He's updated and distributed The Practitioner's Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act, available to county counsel dependency divisions throughout the state. And he trains social workers and CASA representatives on juvenile dependency law.

Prior to his Senior Deputy County Counsel position, Mr. Casey was a staff attorney for California Indian Legal Services; a nonprofit legal services entity with offices throughout California. In private practice, Mr. Casey's experience included consulting a consortium of southern California tribes in their endeavor to establish their own tribal court system; he also handled family law matters, civil litigation and bankruptcy matters. He resides with his wife in San Diego, California.