David Pattison

David Pattison joined City of Wolverhampton Council in February 2020. David is the Council’s Monitoring Officer and has responsibility for good governance within the Council and for the Legal, Equalities, Democratic and Electoral services.

David has been a solicitor for over 20 years and has experience of Central Government, private practice and the local government sectors. Prior to joining the Council, he was Corporate Director Governance at South Staffordshire Council, and before that was a lawyer at the Ministry for Housing and Communities and Local Government working on a number of pieces of local government legislation. He started his career as a solicitor at what is now Womble Bond Dickinson before moving to work in the City of London office of DAC Beachcroft. David is a law graduate from the University of Warwick.