DAVID B. NEUMEYER, ESQ.

Lynchburg, Virginia

EXPERIENCE

2025-Present President, Virginia Access to Justice

1990-2025 Executive Director, Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc.

Lynchburg, VA

1989-1990 Chief Attorney, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.

Prince George's County Office, Riverdale, MD

1986-1989 Legal Director, Food Research and Action Center, Inc.

Washington, D.C.

1984-1986 Associate Director, Coalition on Smoking OR Health, and

Associate Attorney, Asbill Junkin Myers & Buffone Chtd.

Washington, D.C.

1982-1984 Minority Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human

Resources, Washington, D.C.

1979-1981 Reginald Heber Smith Fellow and Staff Attorney, Rhode Island

Legal Services, Inc., Providence, R.I.

1975-1976 ACTION Community Volunteer Paralegal, Rhode Island Legal Services, Inc.

Providence, R.I.

EDUCATION

1979 J.D. University of Maine School of Law

1976 A.B. Brown University

BAR ADMISSIONS

State Courts: Virginia, District of Columbia, Maryland;

(Voluntarily withdrew from RI 1993 because RI had no inactive status)

Federal Courts: District Courts for MD, DC, RI; Courts of Appeal for the First, Fourth, and D.C. Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court

AWARDS

Virgina State Bar Legal Aid Award, 2024

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities Humanitarian Award, 2014
Mayors Award of Excellence, City of Lynchburg, 2011

PUBLICATIONS

Pro Bono: A Call to Service: Virginia Lawyers Weekly June 2020

Preserving and Presenting Our History, The News & Advance, June 2020

Articles for Virginia Lawyer:

VLAS Serving Some of the Poorest Areas in the State ; October 2017

A Survey by the VBA Pro Bono Council, October 2016

Articles on fundraising and administrative issues; book review; Management Information Exchange Journal (1994-2005, 2014)

Articles on Food Stamp issues, Clearinghouse Review (1986-87)

"Four-Warninged is Fore-Armed", with Senator Birch Bayh, The New York Times (September 10, 1984)

SUMMARY OF MAJOR LITIGATION

Affirmative and defensive civil actions in U.S. District Courts in Rhode Island, Maryland, Alabama, New Jersey, D.C., enforcing Constitutional and statutory rights involving housing, food programs, citizen process for complaints against police (1979-1989); amicus briefs in U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal for the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in cases involving food programs and civil rights (1984-1986); opposition to petition for certiorari in U.S. Supreme Court (1989); numerous bench trials and two jury trials representing tenants in state court eviction proceedings; criminal defense representation in state & federal courts

LEADERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Professional:

Virginia State Bar:

Chair, Study Committee on Entry, Growth, and Distribution of Virginia Attorneys, February 2024 - December 2025
Chair, Practice Management Task Force, February 2021-June 2022
Member, Carrico Professionalism Course Faculty, October 2019- June 2023
Member, Bar Council, July 2013 – June 2019
Member, Diversity Conference, 2016-present
Member, Committee on the Future of Law Practice, August 2017-June 2019
Member, Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, July 2014-June 2017
Member, Access to Legal Services Committee, July 1992-June 1997

Virginia Bar Association

Member, 1993-present, and member, Pro Bono Council, inception-present
Editor, biannual Pro Bono Council State of Pro Bono report

Old Dominion Bar Association

Member, 2016-present

Access to Justice:

Member, Access to Justice Commission of the Supreme Court of Virginia, November 2018-present
Member, Pro Bono Council, Virginia Bar Association, 2015-present
Member, Committee on Access by Self-Represented Litigants, Access to Justice Commission, 2014-present and Chair, January 2022-present
Member, Legal Services Corporation of Virginia board of directors, 2000-2006, 2017-2023
Chair, Association of Virginia Legal Aid Programs, 1998-2013
Member, Lynchburg Bar Association board of directors and Law Day chair, 1990s

Community:

Chair, Lynchburg City Electoral Board, February 2020-January 2023 and April 2023-December 2023; vice chair, February 2017-January 2020
Founding president and board member, Silent Witnesses, Inc., 2021-present
Founding president & now board member, Central Virginia Academy for Nonprofit Excellence, 2013-present
Founding president, Opera on the James, 2005-2012; board member 2012-13, board member 2018-2024 and campaign chair 2018-2020.
Board member, Legacy Museum of African-American History, Lynchburg, July 2020-present and Chair, January 2024-present
Member, Board of Directors, Riverviews Artspace, February 2017-December 2019
Co-chair, Thornhill Statue Development Committee, 2017-present, and board member, Fifth Street Community Development Corporation, 2020-present
Member, Board of Directors, United Way of Central Virginia, 2014 & 2015, ex officio as immediate past president of Council of United Way Agencies
President, Council of United Way Agencies, Lynchburg, 2013 and two prior terms
Chair, Campaign Nonprofit Division 2005, 2006, 2009-10, 2010-11, & Campaign Professional Division 1999, United Way of Central Virginia
Founding president and board member, James River Arts, 2008-present
Facilitator and legal resource, Lynchburg Community Dialogue on Race and Racism, 2008-2011
Board President, First Christian Church, Lynchburg 2003-04
Board President, Lynchburg Daily Bread 2000-2001
Volunteer and schedule coordinator, Habitat for Humanity house “build” by Soulforce, see Soulforce.com, Fall 2000
Member, Capital Campaign Committee, Legacy Museum of African-American History, Lynchburg, 1998
Member, Lynchburg Capital Campaign Committee, Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge, 1990s
President, Bedford Hills Elementary School PTA and R.S. Payne Elementary School PTO, EC Glass High School band boosters, citywide PTA/PTO (five years total between 1993 and 2006)
Overnight volunteer, The Gateway homeless men’s shelter, Lynchburg, 1990s, and Luther Place homeless shelter, Washington, DC, 1980s

PERSONAL

Married since 1981 to Mary V. Barney, Esq.

Children:

Benjamin Neumeyer, Esq., William and Mary School of Law Class of 2012; University of Virginia Class of 2006; Washington, DC
Joy Neumeyer, Ph.D. in Russian history, University of California at Berkeley, 2020; Brown University Class of 2010; E.U. Institute Fellow, Florence, Italy, 2020-22; Fulbright Fellow 2010-2011; Warsaw, Poland