David Kleppinger
CHAIR
PENN STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS AT MCNEES WALLACE and NURICK LLC
David M. Kleppinger was appointed to the Board of Trustees by Governor Tom Wolf effective January 2017. He was elected to serve as Vice Chair of the Board in 2020.
Kleppinger earned his B.A. from Penn State in 1977 and his J.D. from the Temple University School of Law in 1980. Kleppinger is Chairman Emeritus at McNees Wallace and Nurick LLC, a law firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after serving as Chairman for 12 years. He served as Vice Chair of the Board of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry from 2015-2018 and as Chair from 2019-2020. At Penn State, he is a member of the College of the Liberal Arts Political Science Department’s Board of Visitors, for which he served as Chair from 2013-2015.