Cary Davidson

Cary Davidson has specialized in political, election and nonprofit organization law since 1980. He has extensive experience in political campaigns and has served as treasurer and/or legal counsel for hundreds of campaign committees. He represents corporations, trade associations, labor unions, lobbyists, candidates and ballot measure committees.  He is co-founder and managing partner of his law firm, Reed & Davidson, LLP.

Davidson is a member of the North American Board of the Union for Reform Judaism and its Executive Board.  Currently, he serves as a co-treasurer.  He chairs the Board of Advisors for the Western Region of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association.

Davidson is a past president of the California Political Attorneys Association, Equality California, Equality California Institute, Congregation Kol Ami, and the Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association. In addition, he served on the California Complete Count Committee – Census 2010 and as chair of the editorial board of Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, the Los Angeles County Bar Association monthly magazine.

Davidson received a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College (summa cum laude, 1975), majoring in Political Science, Public Policy and Jewish Studies, and a J.D. from The University of Chicago Law School (1978).