2024 Hall of Fame Inductee J. David Rosenberg Class of 1974

J. David Rosenberg is a Senior Partner in the Cincinnati law firm of Keating, Muething & Klekamp, where he has practiced law since 1974. He is known for independent thinking, sound judgment, financial acumen, and commitment to causes and communities that have mattered to him throughout his life.

Rosenberg grew up in Lexington working behind the counter of Rosenberg’s, his parents’ small, family-run business on South Limestone Street. He graduated from Henry Clay High School in 1967, where he was President of the Student Council, a member of the award-winning Debate Team, won the Kentucky High School Speech League State Championship for extemporaneous speaking, and the Kiwanis Club Cup. He is a 1971 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a 1973 graduate of the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, where he was named to the Order of the Coif, won the college’s Brown, Todd & Heyburn prize for outstanding work in corporate law and served on the Kentucky Law Journal staff.

Inspired by his parents and informed by his Jewish faith, Rosenberg strives to better his community through his volunteer service and philanthropy. He believes in the power of education to transform lives. He is passionate about the responsibility of attorneys to assure a fair, just and pluralistic society.   Rosenberg and his wife, Dianne, support numerous community causes and organizations, including pre-school literacy, public schools and parks, the Ohio Innocence Project, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Family Independence Initiative, and the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati. He energized the KBA to create the Kentucky Bar Association’s Rural Practice Task Force Initiative to study the causes of the dearth of young lawyers going to rural areas to practice law.  Rosenberg also has served on boards or committees of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati, Isaac M. Wise Temple, the Music Hall Revitalization Company, and the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law Visiting Committee. In 2019, the Rosenberg’s made a $20 million gift commitment to the college, which was renamed the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law.