David Kustoff (R-TN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2006 until 2008 and a United States Representative from Tennessee as a Republican. He graduated from the University of Memphis (B.A, J.D.). In 1998, Kustoff opened a law firm with Jim Strickland, whom he met at the University of Memphis. Both would become active in Tennessee politics; Strickland was elected Mayor of Memphis in 2015. He also served as George W. Bush’s campaign chairman in Tennessee during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. In 2006, President Bush nominated Kustoff for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services