Background
Ratterman, David Burger was born on September 8, 1946 in Louisville. Son of Joseph A. and Esther M. (Burger) Ratterman.
Ratterman, David Burger was born on September 8, 1946 in Louisville. Son of Joseph A. and Esther M. (Burger) Ratterman.
University of Dayton and University of Kentucky (Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 1968). University of Louisville (Master of Business Administration, 1980. Juris Doctor, 1976). Omicron Delta Kappa.
Phi Kappa Phi.
Editor, Journal of Family Law, 1974-1975. Member, National Board of Directors, University of Kentucky Alumni Association.
Worked at Stites & Harbison (Louisville, Kentucky) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Acquisitions, Divestitures and Mergers, Administrative Hearings and Appeals, Admiralty, Antitrust, Appellate Practice, Aviation, Banking, Bankruptcy, Charitable Trusts and Foundations, Commercial, Complex Litigation, Construction, Corporation, Defense of Legal and Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury, Dissolution of Marriage, Employment, Environmental, Equine, Estate Planning and Probate Administration, Health Care, Insurance Defense, Labor Legislative Practice, Litigation, Mineral, Planning and Zoning, Public Finance, Products Liability Litigation, Real Estate, Securities, Social Security Disability, Taxation (Local, State, Federal Income, Estate and Gift), Toxic Torts Litigation, Trust(s) and Utilities. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Kentucky and United States.
District Court, Western District of Kentucky.
1980, United States. District Court, Southern District of Georgia. 1982, United States. Supreme Court, United States.
District Court, Southern District of Illinois, United States. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee.
1986, United States. District Court, Northern District of Florida, United States.
Court of Appeals, 6th and 10th Circuits. 1987, United States. District Court, District of Nebraska. Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi.
Editor, Journal of Family Law, 1974-1975.
Member, National Board of Directors, University of Kentucky Alumni Association. Member: Louisville and Kentucky (Founder, First Chair, Construction and Public Contract Law Section.
Member, House of Delegates, 1987-1993. Member, Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Section of Public Contract Law, 1980) Bar Associations.
American Institute of Steel Construction (Secretary and General Counsel, 1989).
Fellow: American Bar Foundation (Life). College of Construction Lawyers. Military: CMDR, United States Naval Reserve, Retired.
Stites & Harbison is successor to one of the oldest continuous law practices in the nation and is one of the largest firms in Kentucky.
The firm has grown steadily over the last decade and practices on a statewide, regional and national basis from offices in Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort and Jeffersonville, Indiana and Washington, District of Columbia Stites & Harbison is a full service firm practicing through departmental groupings with specialty and industry teams whose 5 locations function as a single law office. The firm is the Kentucky editor of the Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest.
Member school board St. Leonard School, 1981-1984, president 1983-1984. Counsel County Government Handicapped Compliance Commission, 1980-1985. Board directors United Crescent Hill Ministries, 1974-1981, Clifton Neighborhood Development Corporation, 1974-1981.
Served with United States Navy, 1970-1973, to commander Reserve. Fellow American Bar Foundation (sustaining life fellow), American Institute Steel Construction (secretary, general counsel since 1989), American College Construction Lawyers. Member American Bar Association, American Arbitration Association, Kentucky Bar Association (house of deals 1986-1992, foundingchmn. section construction public contract law), Louisville Bar Association, Construction Specifications Institute, Rotary Club Louisville (board directors 1991-1993).
Married Mary Miles Sledd, May 31, 1969. Children— Andrew August, Sara Chandler.