Attorney Profiles

David Holtzapfel joined Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC in 2006 after working for the firm as a student law clerk during the summer of 2005.  David's path to becoming a lawyer was rather unorthodox as he spent fourteen years in the business world as a retail manager for Pep Boys, PetsMart and Staples.  David was married to his wife, Tracy in 1996.  Three years later, their first child, a beautiful daughter named Brooke Taylor was born.  2003 saw the arrival of their first son, Nicholas Austin.  Later that year, after much soul searching and advice from his attorney brother, David enrolled in law school as a "non-traditional" student.

David attended the West Virginia University College of Law where he received his J.D. in 2006 and in that same year welcomed his third child and second son, Jacob Wayne, into the world.  While in law school, David served as Chief Justice of the Moot Court Board and as a member of the M.E. Lugar Trial Association's National Travel Team.  David attended the Basic Mediation Training course provided by the West Virginia Bar in 2004 and served as the Magistrate Mediation Coordinator for Monongalia County Circuit Court from 2005 to 2006.  He also had the privilege to serve as a student law clerk to the Honorable Russell M. Clawges, Jr., Chief Judge of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Monongalia County Circuit Court, in the summer of 2004.  Additionally, he was a member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society, a 1L Student Mentor and a Student Orientation Panel Speaker for the incoming classes of 2008 and 2009.

David was born in Weirton, West Virginia on September 16, 1966.  Even though he grew up in West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Kentucky, David considers Huntington, West Virginia to be his home.  He graduated from Huntington East High School in 1984 and received his B.B.A. from Marshall University in 1989 with a major in Marketing and a minor in Business Management.  Currently, David works in the Charleston office of Pullin, Fowler, Flanagan, Brown & Poe, PLLC where he is infamously referred to as "Super Dave" because he survived getting hit by a mini-van as he was crossing the street to the Firm.  David is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  He is raising his family in Winfield, West Virginia.