David Rhodes Schultz

1939 - 2021

SCHULTZ, David Rhodes, Esq., of Glen Allen, died on October 29, 2021 at St. Mary's Hospital in Richmond. Mr. Schultz was a devoted husband and father, a well-respected leader of the Virginia Bar, faithful supporter of UVA Athletics through the good and bad and beloved curmudgeon.

Mr. Schultz was born in Yonkers, N.Y. on June 16, 1939 and attended Charles E. Gorton High School. It was at Gorton that Mr. Schultz met Judith Ann Maxwell, the love of his life.

In the spring of his life, as with most young men of his generation, he sported a flat top, wore Clark Kent glasses, black Chuck Taylor sneakers and shot free throws underhanded. In other words, an All-American. Mr. Schultz graduated from Gorton in the Spring of 1957.

After graduation, Mr. Schultz attended Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Mr. Schultz majored in chemistry and joined Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, where he wore his flat top, Clark Kent glasses, black Chuck Taylors and a wry smile for each of his four years.

Mr. Schultz was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army upon graduation from Bucknell and was sent to Ft. Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma. Mr. Schultz served in the Air Defense Artillery, a vital branch of the Army in the early 60s.

Being geographically distant from Yonkers, Mr. Schultz asked Miss Maxwell to marry him and come to Oklahoma. She accepted, and the couple found themselves together in the Great Plains.

Following his honorable discharge from the Army in 1963, Mr. and Mrs. Schultz moved to Alexandria, Virginia to start a family. Donald was born in 1964 and Karen in 1967. He worked for Gulf Oil and went to law school at American University in the evening, studying to be a patent attorney.

Mr. Schultz began his legal career in private practice, eventually becoming General Counsel for Reston Land Development Corporation. Over a 30-year legal career, Mr. Schultz earned a reputation as a knowledgeable and skilled real estate attorney. He began his career by searching titles at the Alexandria courthouse and eventually played a major role in Reston's development and closing real estate deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

As a leader of the bar, Mr. Schultz devoted significant time to serving on the Disciplinary Board of the Virginia State Bar. This institution bears the responsibility of administering discipline to wayward attorneys. He considered this responsibility commensurate with a public trust, and he was a fair but firm judge of attorney conduct.

In the autumn of his life, Mr. Schultz devoted his time to his family. Grandpa Dave and Grandma Judy were fixtures at their grandchildren's activities, graduations and this summer, the wedding of grandson, Maxwell Dash to Miss Alex Gerkin.

Mr. Schultz was predeceased by his parents, Charles Davidson Schultz and Florence Rhodes Schultz. He leaves a wonderful family: wife, Judith Maxwell Schultz; son, Donald Charles Schultz of Virginia Beach, Virginia and wife, Kimberly Sensabaugh Schultz; daughter, Karen Schultz Dash and husband, Stephen William Dash of Glen Allen, Virginia; granddaughters, Allison Claire Dash and Charlotte Lee Dash of Richmond, Virginia; grandson, Maxwell Benjamin Dash and wife, Alex Gerkin Dash, currently of Avon, Connecticut; and grandsons, Dwight Howard Schultz and Louis McClellan Schultz of Virginia Beach, Virginia.

The family will host a celebration of Mr. Schultz' life in Glen Allen in January, 2022.