David A. Sellers

David A. Sellers served as the Public Affairs Officer at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO) in Washington, D.C.  He oversaw communications strategy, media relations, community outreach, video broadcasting, and web communications programs for the AO and provided advice to federal courts in these areas. He also served as the principal media spokesperson for the federal judiciary and the Judicial Conference of the United States. Mr. Sellers joined the AO in1987, when he started the public affairs office as the agency’s first Public Information Officer, and retired in September 2023. 

He has served on the faculty of the National Judicial College and the Federal Judicial Center and trained judges and court staff in Croatia, Jordan, Romania, Bulgaria, Algeria, Morocco and throughout the United States in court/public affairs issues. Mr. Sellers is a past President of the Conference of Court Public Information Officers and has served on the National Advisory Council for the Reynolds National Center for Courts and the Media and the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society.

Mr. Sellers previously worked as a reporter for Washington Times, a daily newspaper in the nation’s capital, where he covered federal, state, and local courts. He served as editor of Bar Report, the official newspaper of the D.C. Bar; a public information officer for the Pennsylvania Department of Justice; a syndicated columnist for Copley News Service; and a reporter for the Main Line Times in suburban Philadelphia. Mr. Sellers graduated from Dickinson College in 1978.