David T. Hardy

Dave Hardy was born in Phoenix, AZ, in 1951, and has lived most of his life in Tucson. He graduated from the University of Arizona College of Law in 1975, after serving as an editor of Arizona Law Review and on the Moot Court Board. In 1974, he published the first law review article to argue for an individual rights understanding of the Second Amendment.

From 1975 to 1982 he practiced law in Tucson. In 1982 he moved to Falls Church, VA, married, and began work with Interior Department's Office of the Solicitor, doing the strangest legal work he had ever handled. (As part of his duties, he listened to undercover lizard buys going down). In 1992 he returned to Tucson and to private practice (largely spent suing the government).

In 2000, with the late Mike McNulty and reporter Lee Hancock, Hardy played a major role in reopening the Waco issue (an independent counsel was appointed the morning after he defeated the FBI's chief spokesman while on ABC Nightline).

His legal writings have been cited twice by the United States Supreme Court and by eleven of the thirteen U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals.