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The POWER List 2023: David W. Sweeney
Staff Report//January 11, 2023//
Lewis Rice
David Sweeney gained a deep understanding of government in his eight years advising the St. Louis Board of Aldermen.
From 2007 to 2015, he served as the board president’s general counsel and then the board’s chief legal counsel, drafting ordinances and counseling employees and officials on legal issues. He then moved back into the private sector, practicing at then-Lathrop & Gage before joining Lewis Rice in 2017.
His work as a lobbyist has ranged from helping a private equity firm with its bid on a lease for the St. Louis Lambert International Airport to aiding Utility Associates secure a contract for body cameras for the St. Louis Police Department.
He is a member of the Missouri Growth Association, the Missouri Municipal Attorneys Association and the Missouri Municipal League.
Sweeney earned his law degree from Saint Louis University in 2004. Prior to becoming a lawyer, he was a special education teacher in the St. Louis region.
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