Administrative Assistant

As Administrative Assistant, David Silva interacts with faculty, staff and students both at the law school and at the law library. He processes incoming funds, negotiates journal contracts, pays law school and library bills, manages the purchasing card program, processes the human resources procedures, provides accounting reports for a variety of campus entities and juggles numerous other accounting related tasks.

David has worked as an accountant for the U since 1993. He joined the College of Law accounting team in 2009. Prior to that, he worked for the Marriott Library in a number of accounting positions. David was educated at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Willamette University and most recently at the University of Utah, where he excelled in the English and Honors departments.

David is passionate about nature, books and people. He pursues environmental preservation and seeks to understand historical significance.