Senator Dan Weber is a Republican and represents Senate District 40. Sen. Weber is the chairman of the Education and Youth Committee, vice chairman of the Urban Affairs committee and secretary of the State and Local Governmental Operations Committee. Also, he is a member of the Special Judiciary and
Natural Resources and the Environment committees.

Sen. Weber was born in 1956 in St. Mary’s, Ohio. After ttending high school in a small town in central Ohio, he received an engineering degree from the University of Toledo in 1979, where he was inducted into several academic and leadership honor societies. In addition to playing basketball for two years, Sen. Weber was heavily involved in the student government, serving as the student government president of the engineering college. The Ohio Society of Professional Engineers recognized his achievements by naming him the “Outstanding Engineering Student in Ohio” for 1979. Sen. Weber obtained his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center, where he graduated near the top of his class and served as Research Editor for the Law Review.

Sen. Weber and his wife Kay married in 1990. Kay is an ducator and has worked in the DeKalb schools for 27 years, and currently serves as the principal of Peachtree Charter Middle School. Family is very important to the Webers, as they have a son in second grade at Austin Elementary School and a four-year- old daughter they adopted from Russia.

Sen. Weber has been in private practice in Dunwoody since 1996, working to resolve disputes in the construction industry involving local, state and federal governments. Prior to going out on his own, he worked with Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, where he served as a commercial litigation associate.
From 1988-1996, he worked at Smith & Fleming, where his primary concentration was mediation and arbitration of government contract and construction disputes. He serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association.

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