David J. Brightbill
Phone: 610.478.2025
djb@mcculloughconsultinggroup.com

The Honorable David (Chip) J. Brightbill has 30 years experience in the general practice of law plus 24 years as a state legislator, including six as both the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader and the Chairman of the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. He worked closely with Samuel A. McCullough in attracting and retaining Pennsylvania jobs through state economic incentives during Mr. McCullough’s tenure as Secretary of Community and Economic Development. Chip’s legislative accomplishments resulted in groundbreaking laws in the Commonwealth:

• Act 23 of 2004 – the Infrastructure and Facilities Improvement Program – an innovative economic development tool, which helps draw thousands of new jobs to Pennsylvania and is credited with bringing more than 4,000 jobs to Pennsylvania. As the leader of the Senate, he led the negotiations in 2004 which created the administration’s package of economic development mechanisms, including Act 22, which created the Commonwealth Financing Authority.
  
  
• Act 2 of 1995 – facilitates the reuse of abandoned industrial sites. Since the inception of his landmark “brownfields” program, more than 1,000 sites have been cleaned up across the Commonwealth. Senator Brightbill’s law won the prestigious Innovations in Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University, and was honored as a national model by the Council of State Governments. In 2001, President Bush visited Pennsylvania to sign a national brownfields law and congratulate Senator Brightbill on his efforts.
  
  
• Act 46 of 2005 – establishing Dual Enrollment across Pennsylvania which helps students earn college credit before graduating from high school by establishing partnerships between high schools and local colleges and universities.

Chip served as a solicitor for a county, several townships, housing authority, redevelopment authority, water company, water and sewer authority, and housing development companies between 1970 and 2000. He also served as a trustee of a hospital board and was a member of the school board for the Lebanon School District.

Chip earned a J.D., cum laude, at Duquesne University School of Law and a B.S. in Economics from The Pennsylvania State University.