David Schwendiman graduated for the University of Utah College of Law in 1976.  He was admitted to practice law in Utah in 1976 and began his career as an Assistant Utah Attorney General (1976-1977; 1983 – 1987).  As a member of the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Crops he spent six years on active duty as a defense and trial counsel and as a command advisor on Midway island, Guam, and Whidbey Island, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Commander.  He has been an Assistant United States Attorney in the district of Utah since 1987.  From 1993 to 1998, he served as First Assistant united States Attorney to United States Attorney Scott Matheson, Jr.  He was the Interim United States Attorney for the District of Utah in 1998.  Mr. Schwendiman has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Utah College of Law and the S.J. Quinney College of Law since 1994.  Mr. Schwendiman is a member of the Utah state Bar, Licensed to practice in all courts in the State of Utah, and is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed forces, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the District of Utah.  MR. Schwendiman’s work in the Department of Justice has included numerous overseas assignments in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Vietnam.  He had special security responsibilities in connection with the Games of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Athens, 2004, the XIXth Olympic Winter Games, Salt Lake City, 2002, and the Games of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Sydney, Australia, 2000.  He served for ten years as part of the United States Attorney General’s Attorney Critical Incident Response Group (ACIRG).  Mr. Schwendiman has been an International Prosecutor in the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of Bosnia and Herzegovina May 2006 - 2009.  He served as the Justice Attaché in the U.S. Embassy, Kabul Afghanistan from 2011-2013, and as the Director of Forward Operations, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, from 2014 – 2019.