Daniel Whitehead is a former Assistant General Counsel to Governor Ron DeSantis. He clerked for two federal appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for Judge Daniel Manion and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims for Judge Joseph Leo Toth. Daniel also worked for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
He is a John Marshall Fellow of the Claremont Institute and a Fellow of the James Wilson Institute.
Daniel is a native Floridian, and he attended Ave Maria School of Law and Ave Maria University, majoring in Classical Languages and Literature. For the duration of his Fellowship, Daniel’s host institution will be the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, mentored by Dr. Gladden Pappin. His research interests are 1. liberal ideology as a security threat to global and domestic tranquility and 2. relations between the West and China.
“I chose this program to study the politics and culture of a nation that is rejecting the progressive approach to politics and opting instead for the classical model of statecraft. Here, that is a Christian conception of politics that serves the material, cultural, and moral interests of its people rather than one rooted in resentment, despair, and hostility toward God and nature. The fruits of this paradigm shift–security, prosperity, and order–are evident to all who visit this historic land.” – Daniel Whitehead