DANIEL NELSON
Chief Deputy Prosecutor
Dan Nelson is the Chief Deputy Prosecutor of the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office. Most recently, he served for 12 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for Western Missouri where he tried cases to juries and represented the United States in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. He served in a variety of roles including Securities Fraud Coordinator, Elections Officer and Executive AUSA. At trial, Dan has convicted businessmen and women, bank robbers, a mayor, and tax criminals. He was recognized by a panel of state and federal judges and the Missouri Bar Foundation with the 2014 Lon Hocker Award for trial excellence. Previously, Dan was a business litigation associate in the Washington D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis. He conducts CLEs on trial advocacy, ethics, securities law, and cyber law. He has guest-lectured at Mizzou and KU, he co-teaches Federal Trial Practice at UMKC Law School, and he is a Special Master for KCMBA’s Trial Academy. Dan is board president of The Child Protection Center, an accredited child advocacy center serving Jackson and Cass counties. He is past president of Impact KC, a giving circle that since 2004 has awarded nearly $1M to Kansas City charities. A proud sixth-generation Missourian, Dan is a graduate of the MU School of Journalism and the University of Virginia School of Law.