David H. Burt

David H. Burt chaired the New Castle County Board of Adjustment for fourteen years, presiding over 330 hearings and 2,776 cases to adjudicate citizens’ requests for variances from a variety of county laws and regulations. Mindful that uniquely among county boards the BOA determined individual property rights, his first focus was to assure that community members would receive a full hearing of relevant facts, could see how legal principles were applied, and afterward would feel that they experienced a fair process.

A graduate of Tower Hill School, Swarthmore College and William and Mary Law School, Mr. Burt was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1986. He practiced trial law in the Delaware courts for a decade before being recruited by the DuPont Company.

As corporate counsel he served DuPont as its Alternative Dispute Resolution leader, was chief legal counsel for its captive insurer Christiana Insurance LLC, and was responsible for commercial litigation, international arbitration and insurance law. As both “first chair” trial counsel and collaborator with outside counsel, he has arbitrated in the US, Asia and Europe under the laws of several countries and various rule schemes, also achieving many commercial dispute settlements through mediation.

After retirement from DuPont Mr. Burt joined the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution as an executive consultant, also consulting extensively in the specialty area of Affirmative Recoveries with a leading law firm and corporate clients. He and his wife Audrey Whiteside reside in Holly Oak.