David Mark Hullender joined the Industrial Commission as a Deputy Commissioner on April 20, 2015, after winding down his private practice with the firm of David M. Hullender, P.A. in Kings Mountain, North Carolina. Hullender was reappointed to a second term as a Deputy Commissioner effective February 1, 2022.
Prior to starting his own firm, Hullender was an associate with George B. Thomasson, P.A. from 1990 until 2001. Hullender served on the North Carolina Indigent Defense Services Commission and is the former chairman of the Kings Mountain ABC Board.
Hullender is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, North Carolina Central University Law School, magna cum laude, and earned an LL.M in Taxation from the University of Florida School of Law.