David D. Murray

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   October 25, 2025

   David D. Murray is a retired lawyer who provides select clients with international trade and transportation solutions.

   Mr. Murray received a Bachelor of Science degree in June of 1966 from
   Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and the degree of Juris Doctor
   from Western State College of Law, in December 1977.

   As an American Jurisprudence Law Award recipient in Criminal Law. As a Certified Intern with the Office of the San Diego County District Attorney, Mr. Murray began his legal career in the area of criminal prosecution in 1976. After handling many criminal matters as a Certified Intern, Mr. Murray shifted the emphasis of his practice to civil matters, representing companies and individuals world-wide in legal matters ranging from employment disputes, contract negotiation and drafting, copyright and trade secret enforcement, labor law, domestic and international business transactions, business litigation, entity formation, and U.S. corporate, business and family related immigration matters.

   Prior to retirement, Mr. Murray was certified to practice law before all courts of the State of California, the United States District Court in the Central and Southern Districts of California, and the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Mr. Murray’s professional affiliations have included active membership in the State Bar of California, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the State Bar of California International Law Section, the Orange County Bar Association International Law Section, and the Orange County Bar Association Immigration Law Section and the Orange County Bar Association General Counsel Section.

   Mr. Murray served in the U.S. Army from 1967 to 1969, taking Basic Training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Lee, Virginia. Remaining at Fort Lee as an instructor in the Quartermaster School until deployment to the Republic of South Vietnam in September 1968, Mr. Murray became one of the four founding personnel of the HQ I Corps Tactical Zone Signal Group in Phu Bai, South Vietnam. While stationed at  Phu Bai , in addition to his regular military duties, Mr. Murray served as Professor of English at the University of Hue, through the auspices of a United States Information Agency cultural exchange program.

   Growing up in Michiana Shores, Indiana, and learning to sail at age 15 aboard the 38-foot wooden ketch ‘Scherzo 2 ½’,on Lake Michigan. At age 21 Mr. Murray took a hiatus from his university studies and shipped out “before the mast” with Windjammer Cruises as a deckhand aboard the 197 foot staysail schooner ‘Yankee Clipper’, formerly the Vanderbilt family’s yacht ‘Pioneer’, and the majestic 150 foot schooner ‘Polynesia’, charter cruising the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and the Windward and Leeward Islands of the West Indies. The next year, after graduating from college, Mr. Murray continued his professional sailing career in the Virgin Islands as First Mate aboard the big gaff-rigged Brixham Trawler charter yacht, ‘Maverick’, under the command of his sailing mentor, Captain Jack Carstarphen.

   Serving as a deckhand aboard the schooners ‘Yankee Clipper’ and ‘Polynesia’, crew aboard ‘Maverick,’ the 70’ ketch ‘Viking’, and a delivery from the Virgin Islands to Florida and the Miami to Nassau Sailboat Race aboard the classic champion sailing yacht ‘Ticonderoga’ qualified Mr. Murray with sufficient sea-time to sit for his 100-ton
   Captain’s License.

   In 1974, Mr. Murray earned the rank of Merchant Marine Captain, thereafter serving as Captain of the international sailing yacht ‘Mystic’, a 60-foot Ted Brewer designed aluminum ketch, and ‘Bon Belle’, a 63-foot Phillip Rhodes designed aluminum ketch.
   In addition, Mr. Murray gained Caribbean sailboat charter experience as captain aboard such famous sailing yachts as the historic 73-foot Nathaniel Herreshoff designed NY 50 ‘Spartan’ (See: https://classicsailboats.org/n-g-herreshoff-ny50-spartan), the 70-foot Ufa Fox designed ‘Flying Fifty‘ (See: http://www.uffafox.com/flying50.htm), and ‘Diligence’, a Sparkman and Stephens designed Swan 57 (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_57).

   In addition to running week-long vacation charters in the West Indies, in the Windward and the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, Mr. Murray single-handedly cruised his tiny 22-foot sloop, ‘Waltzing Matilda’ around the Caribbean and cruised from the Virgin Islands to California aboard the 70-foot ketch ‘Viking’ in 1970, and again from the Virgin Islands to California aboard the 68-foot classic racing yacht ‘Chubasco’ in 1980.
   (See: https://sailchubasco.com/owners).

   Mr. Murray’s sailing adventures have taken him to ports all along the New England Coast and down the East Coast of the United States from Maine to Florida, sailing to Bermuda, the Bahamas, the West Indies’ Leeward and Windward Islands, cruising to South America, twice through the Panama Canal and up the coast of Central America and Mexico, north-westward to California, in addition to sailing in Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Mediterranean Sea. In a lifetime of sailing, Mr. Murray has logged many sea miles, chartering, delivering, racing, and cruising aboard both traditional and modern sailing yachts ranging in size from 22 to 197 feet.

   Retiring from professional sailing in 1982, Mr. Murray devoted his most of his time
   to the practice of law, with the exception of a six month sabbatical in 1986 to join a diamond mining operation in the Kasai Province of Zaire (previously the Belgian Congo, and presently called Democratic Republic of Congo) out in the African bush country,
   60 kilometers from the town of Tshikapa, and 600 kilometers from the capitol city of Kinshasa.

   Mr. Murray has written a book entitled ‘Africa, Africa’. The book is a cut-to-the-chase documentation of what daily life is like mining diamonds in the wilds of the African bush, living in a dirt floor hovel, without running water or an indoor toilet, the only electricity provided by a 15kw diesel-powered generator that provided power to bare, ceiling-hung, light bulbs and the luxury of a TV that because there is no television reception in the African bush, featured only bootlegged videos in French, brought from Belgium.

   Mr. Murray is an avid long-distance Harley-Davidson motorcycle rider, off-road overland Jeeper, guitarist (electric and acoustic), five-string banjo picker, ukulele player, singer, song writer, collector of Chinese jade and art, a writer, poet, philosopher, backpacker, hiker, sailor, skier, and lover of the great outdoors.

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