Professional Bio

David M. Kleppinger was appointed to the Penn State Board of Trustees by Governor Tom Wolf in January 2017. He was elected vice chair in 2020 and assumed the role of chair in 2024.

Kleppinger earned his BA (1977) from Penn State and his JD (1980) from the Temple University School of Law. He is chairman emeritus at McNees Wallace and Nurick LLC, a law firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after serving as chairman for 12 years. He served as vice chair of the board of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry from 2015–2018 and as chair from 2019–2020. At Penn State, he is a member of the College of the Liberal Arts Political Science Department’s Board of Visitors, for which he served as chair from 2013–2015.