David B. Foltz, Jr. was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his father was then a music professor and choral conductor, which profession took the family from Lincoln to the University of Wichita in Wichita, Kansas, and then to the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where Dr. Foltz retired as Dean Emeritus of the College of Fine Arts.
David graduated from Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts in 1971 with honors, and thereafter attended Yale University, where he received his B.A. degree in 1975. In 1978, he received his J.D. degree from Tulane University, following which he and his wife, Beth, moved to Houston, where he joined the firm of Sheinfeld, Maley & Kay, where he became a partner in 1984.
David left the Sheinfeld firm in 1990 to form, together with his mentor, Arthur Moller, the firm of David B. Foltz, Jr. & Associates. With the exception of a period of time when he was in the partnership of Kirkendall, Isgur & Foltz, David practiced in his own firm until closing his practice in 2001 due to illness.
Throughout his legal career, David pursued his love and great talent for learning, teaching and writing. He authored numerous articles on bankruptcy in addition to teaching at the Paralegal Institute of Houston and as an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin. He was a longtime member of the planning committee and faculty of the University of Texas School of Law Annual Bankruptcy Conference, and served as its Chair for one of its annual sessions. He also served as an adjunct professor teaching bankruptcy at South Texas College of Law and as a member of the Advisory Committee on Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure of the United States Judicial Conference.
David was demonstrably and deservedly proud of his family, which includes Beth and daughters Sarah and Kallie. His most cherished legal-related achievement was serving as the leading force, together with Mickey Sheinfeld and Dan Julian, in bringing to reality the establishment of the Arthur L. Moller Chair in Bankruptcy Law and Practice at the University of Texas School of Law, honoring Judge Moller’s many contributions to the practice of bankruptcy law.