Dan Satterberg
American lawyer
title: "Dan Satterberg" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["20th-century-births", "highline-high-school-alumni", "lawyers-from-seattle", "living-people", "people-from-king-county,-washington", "politicians-from-seattle", "university-of-washington-school-of-law-alumni", "washington-(state)-lawyers", "washington-(state)-republicans", "delta-upsilon-members"] description: "American lawyer" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Satterberg" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary American lawyer ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox officeholder"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Dan Satterberg |
| office | Prosecuting Attorney of King County |
| term_start | July 25, 2007 |
| term_end | January 8, 2023 |
| predecessor | Norm Maleng |
| successor | Leesa Manion |
| birth_name | Daniel Todd Satterberg |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Seattle, Washington, United States |
| party | Republican (before 2018) |
| Democratic (2018–present) | |
| spouse | |
| children | 2 |
| education | University of Washington (BA, JD) |
| :: |
| name = Dan Satterberg | image = | office = Prosecuting Attorney of King County | term_start = July 25, 2007 | term_end = January 8, 2023 | predecessor = Norm Maleng | successor = Leesa Manion | birth_name = Daniel Todd Satterberg | birth_date = | birth_place = Seattle, Washington, United States | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican (before 2018) Democratic (2018–present) | spouse = | children = 2 | education = University of Washington (BA, JD) Daniel Todd Satterberg (born 1959 or 1960) is an American attorney and politician who served as the prosecuting attorney of King County, Washington from 2007 to 2023.
Early life and education
Born in Seattle, Satterberg graduated from Highline High School and the University of Washington. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Washington School of Law.
Career
Satterberg began work in the King County Prosecutor's office. There he spent four years as a trial attorney in the Criminal Division before serving as chief of staff to then-Prosecutor Norm Maleng from 1990 to 2007.
In May 2007, King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng unexpectedly died of a heart attack. Because Maleng had been elected as a moderate Republican, his successor was nominated by the King County Republican Central Committee. Satterberg was appointed by the King County Council to fill the position until a special election was held in November 2007. That November, Satterberg was elected to fill the remaining three years of Maleng's term. He subsequently won election as a Republican to a full four-year term in 2010. In 2016, Satterberg successfully pushed for a voter approved amendment to King County Charter to make the office of Prosecutor nominally non-partisan. Despite holding a non-partisan office, Satterberg made public in 2018 that his political views align with the Democratic Party.
Since 2008, Satterberg has served on the State of Washington Sentencing Guidelines Commission under appointment by Governor Christine Gregoire. He was the co-chairman, along with former Washington Attorney-General Rob McKenna, of the Washington Law Enforcement Group Against Identity Theft (LEGIT), a quasi-governmental organization that seeks to raise awareness about consumer data privacy issues in Washington.
Satterberg decided not to bring charges against Officer Ian Birk in the shooting of John T. Williams, a decision criticized by attorneys for the Williams family.
In January 2022, Satterberg announced that he would not seek reelection when his current term expired.
References
|before = Norm Maleng |title = Prosecuting Attorney of King County |years = July 25, 2007 – January 8, 2023 |after = Leesa Manion}}
References
- Ervin, Keith. (March 30, 2007). "Satterberg to fill Maleng's post". [[The Seattle Times]].
- Modie, Neil. (May 29, 2007). "Satterberg to be acting prosecutor". [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].
- "Biography Dan Satterberg King County Prosecuting Attorney". [[King County, Washington.
- (May 30, 2007). "Satterberg to fill Maleng's post". [[The Seattle Times]].
- "Prosecutor's job attracts interest". [[The Seattle Times]].
- Jenkins, Austin. (April 15, 2016). "King County Prosecutor Wants To Make Office Non-Partisan". [[KUOW-FM]].
- (May 29, 2018). "King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg says he's now a Democrat". [[The Seattle Times]].
- (December 1, 2008). "Dec. 1: Prosecutor's Office News: December 2008".
- (October 24, 2008). "Washington Seeks Tools to Fight Identity Thieves". Insurance Journal.
- (February 15, 2011). "No charges against Seattle officer who shot woodcarver". [[The Seattle Times]].
- (2011-02-16). "Woodcarver's family faults prosecutor for not filing charges". [[Seattle Post-Intelligencer]].
- Radil, Amy. (2022-01-07). "Longtime King County Prosecutor Dan Satterberg won't seek reelection".
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::