David R. Hostetler

David Hostetler is a lawyer-educator. He is the founding director of Lex-is School Law Services (www.Lex-is.com). The firm specializes in education law, and represents a broad array of public charter and independent schools.

Mr. Hostetler also teaches educational law, policy, ethics, and leadership in Appalachian State University’s Leadership and Education Studies program. He has also taught as an adjunct professor for several North Carolina law and graduate education programs, using the humanities to teach principles of ethics and leadership.

Formerly Mr. Hostetler and other leading members of the state’s bar, founded The Center for Law and the Humanities, for which he served as its Executive Director. The Center offered seminars and retreats based in the humanities, to facilitate personal and professional renewal for lawyers and judges.

For thirteen years, Mr. Hostetler was the Legal Director for the University of North Carolina's Principals' Executive Program, a statewide residential school leadership program, where he provided legal training and consulting, and also created and directed its Leadership Seminars in the Humanities, in conjunction with UNC’s Program in the Humanities and Human Values.

His education includes degrees from Duke University (1990, J.D. and M.A. in Political Science), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (1987, M.A. in Theology), and Westminster College (1983, B.A. in Business Administration). He may be contacted at 919-442-8593 or hos@hoslaw.com

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