David Metcalf

David Metcalf (born 1986) is an American lawyer who has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2025.

Early life and education Metcalf grew up in Northern Virginia and matriculated from Wakefield School. He went to Princeton University to play collegiate soccer for the varsity men's soccer team, earning 1st Team All-Ivy Academic Honors, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors).

Career Metcalf was a law clerk to Judge Albert Diaz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 2012 to 2013; and was then an associate lawyer for the Washington D.C. firm Covington & Burling, LLP. and before the Senate approved his nomination, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania appointed Metcalf to the position effective June 24, 2025. In 2025, Metcalf filed charges in what he described as "the largest federal indictment this century" in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charging 33 defendants in a drug-trafficking conspiracy based in Philadelphia. In September 2025, Metcalf announced that the Department of Justice had filed a civil complaint against ProMedica Health System, alleging that several of its nursing facilities provided "grossly substandard" care in violation of the Nursing Home Reform Act.