Luzerne County lawyer David E. Schwager, a partner in the Wilkes-Barre law firm of Chariton, Schwager & Malak, is serving his second one-year term as PBA treasurer.

Schwager served from 2010 to 2013 as Zone 5 governor on the PBA Board of Governors for Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming counties. He serves as vice chair of the PBA Bylaws Committee. He is a past chair of the PBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and a past chair of its Financing of Real Estate Committee and Real Estate Taxation Committee. A member of the PBA House of Delegates, Schwager previously served as chair of the PBA Statutory Law Committee. Schwager is a member of the boards of directors of the PBI and the PBF. He also is a PBF life fellow.

Named a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer" by Philadelphia Magazine every year since 2010, he is a member of the Advisory Committee on Real Property Law of the Joint State Government Commission of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. He recently was reappointed to a second consecutive three-year term on the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is a past vice chair of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Committee of the American Bar Association YLD. He is the treasurer of the Middle District (PA) Bankruptcy Bar Association and also served as a past president of the Luzerne County Bar Association YLD.

A past assistant district attorney for Luzerne County, Schwager is chair of the Kingston Borough Zoning Hearing Board, an assistant Luzerne County solicitor, and the solicitor for the Shickshinny Sanitary Sewer Authority. Schwager serves as president of the B’nai B’rith Apartments Housing Foundation, chair of the board of trustees of Temple Israel in Wilkes-Barre and treasurer of Ecumenical Enterprises. He is a past president of the Jewish Community Center of Wyoming Valley, Temple Israel of Wilkes-Barre, the S.J. Strauss Lodge of B'nai B'rith and the Wyoming Seminary Alumni Association. He served as chair of the United Hebrew Institute School Board and the 2007 Jewish Federation campaign.

Schwager is a graduate of Lafayette College and The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. He served on the executive committee of the Lafayette College Alumni Association and on the board of the General Alumni Association of The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.