Dan Glowitz Bio

Upon graduating from Mercer Island High School (1999), Dan attended Amherst College where he received a B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, and fell in love with the woman he would marry soon thereafter, Ana-Maria Mocanu. Dan went on to obtain a J.D., cum laude, from The University of Michigan Law School, and began his legal career on Wall Street in Milbank's financial restructuring group in the immediate aftermath of the credit crisis. He later decided to return to the beautiful Pacific Northwest and joined Wilson Sonsini’s Seattle office where he advised emerging technology companies on corporate and board related matters. Dan subsequently served as corporate counsel at HTC and Zillow where he worked on various intellectual property and regulatory matters, including those pertaining to virtual reality.

Most recently, Dan has been a stay-at-home parent in which he has volunteered in his children’s classrooms, chaperoned their field trips, chauffeured them to activities, and undertaken the myriad other daily responsibilities and commitments entailed in that role.

Dan lives with his wife, two school-age children, (who both attend schools in the district), mother and father in-law, two cats and a dog, in his childhood home near Luther Burbank Park. In his spare time, Dan enjoys spending time in nature. He is the only person foolish and determined enough to complete the Passport 2 Pain on a single-speed bicycle. Some books which he has recently read and recommends are The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner, River of Doubt by Candice Millard, Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner, and The Dead Zone by Stephen King. He also recommends Servant of the People, a scripted Ukrainian television series which is currently streaming on Netflix.